Poste Restante is an inexpensive service for overseas visitors so they can receive letters and parcels from family and friends while travelling around New Zealand.
The Poste Restante service provides customers with:
- a location to hold mail until they are ready to collect it
- a facility to redirect mail
- a facility to leave messages, and
- storage facilities for parcels to be collected when ready.
Poste Restante locations can hold letters (including small parcels up to 2kg) for overseas visitors for up to three months at no cost.
The cost for a domestic redirection of Poste Restante mail is $7.00.
The cost of an overseas redirection will depend on the service required (ie International Air or International Economy) and the international zone it will be sent to.
Note: We cannot redirect mail to a hotel, motel, motorcamp or boarding house.
Poste Restante locations can hold parcels up to 2-30kg for overseas visitors for up to three months for a small fee. The first seven days are free of charge, each parcel held beyond this will be charged at a rate of $2.50 per seven days or part thereof.
After three months, any unclaimed letters or parcels will be returned to sender.
All Poste Restante mail should be addressed as detailed below.
| Correct (Poste Restante - from another country) |
|
| David Franklin |
Recipient |
| Poste Restante |
Delivery service |
| Levin 5510 |
Town, Postcode |
| New Zealand |
Country |
| Incorrect |
|
| David Franklin |
Recipient |
| Post Restante |
Delivery service |
| Levin PostShop |
PostShop |
| Levin 5510 |
Town, Postcode |
| New Zealand |
Country |
For further information regarding Poste Restante feel free to contact our Customer Service Centre on 0800 501 501 from within New Zealand or
+64 9 367 9710 internationally.
Poste Restante Locations