KARIBU KENYA - UNON - the United Nations Office at Nairobi

For those who want email access at home, a number ISPs can be recommended
– although unlimited email and Internet access remains more expensive
here than in the West.
National Postal Services
Kenya’s postal services have become much more efficient and reliable in recent
years, particularly as regards the security of mail travelling into and around the
country. However, as in most countries, it is still not advisable to send cash or
anything valuable by ordinary post.Apart from the speedpost and courier services,
post is not delivered directly to people’s homes, but to personal or corporate
boxes at the major post offices.
Nairobi’s main post office is at Telposta Towers on Kenyatta Avenue, with
other major post offices at Haile Selassie Avenue, Tom Mboya Street, Ngara
Road, Enterprise Road, Westlands, Yaya Centre, Adams Arcade, Nyayo
Stadium, Lavington,Village Market, Muthaiga, Karen, Hardy Estate Langata,
and the International Airport.There is also a sub post office at the UN Gigiri
Complex. Hours of service are 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday.
The Postal Corporation of Kenya (Posta) runs efficient daily airmail services,
delivering letters to Europe in 3-4 days and the United States in 6-7 days.
There are also reliable internal airmail services between Nairobi and Kenya’s
other major towns. Surface mail is less reliable, taking up to 3 months from
Europe depending on shipping traffic. For urgent mail, Posta’s Expedited Mail
Service (EMS) offers next-day delivery in the UK and delivery within 3 days
in the US, at much more competitive prices than the courier companies (Ksh
1,650 for 0.5kg or Ksh 2,500 for 1.5kg). Posta also offers a Post Cargo service
for bulky mail, and several different types of secure national and regional money
order services. For more information, call 243434 or visit www.posta.co.ke.
UN Postal Services
UN employees can use the UNON operated Pouch Service to send official mail
and small personal mail to most major UN agencies and regional offices worldwide.
As well as all UNEP regional offices, pouches are sent to most UNDP African field
offices once a fortnight.There is a twice-weekly pouch service to UN Headquarters
in New York and the UN Office in Geneva every Wednesday and Friday, which
takes five days and three days respectively.This is a particularly convenient and secure
means of sending cheques to the UN Federal Credit Union in New York.
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