# French speakers this time: Please help me post yet another card

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 18, 2004, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-speakers-this-time-please-help-me-post-yet-another-card/235009 "2004-03-18T10:33:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fish\_Cheer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fish_cheer/32/17179_2.png) [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-speakers-this-time-please-help-me-post-yet-another-card/235009/1 "2004-03-18T10:33:58Z")

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Ok, we ticked off Spain fairly easily (thanks again, **sailor** ). But wait! That’s not all yet.

So… what’s the rate for a postcard from Morocco to Europe?

“La Poste du Maroc”, Barid Al-Maghrib ought to know this… but their [site](http://www.bam.net.ma/) is only available in French, of which I don’t have the foggiest notion. Babelfish’s web site translation tool does not work too well here either.

Can you help?

(Incidental find: Looking for sites of postal administrations worldwide? See [here](http://www.upu.int/pls/ap/www_sites.display_sites).)

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**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-speakers-this-time-please-help-me-post-yet-another-card/235009/2 "2004-03-18T12:32:38Z")

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From what I gleaned [On this page](http://www.bam.net.ma/internet/francais/FrmChoisirCourrier.htm#1), it appears to be a bit complicated. The rate for letters and postcards depends on the following factors:

- The weight.
- The destination.
- The type of service (either “priority” or “low priority”)
- Whether you ask for extras such as certificate of reception.

There’s a little applet that calculates the cost. I tried a letter to France weighing 50g sent “low priority” with no extras and it came up to 12.85 DH. A 25g letter costs 12.6 DH and a 100g one, 13.35 DH. You get the idea. If you want to try out the applet, click on “Calculer automatiquement le prix de vos envois.”

Hope this helps.

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**Author:** ![Fish\_Cheer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fish_cheer/32/17179_2.png) [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-speakers-this-time-please-help-me-post-yet-another-card/235009/3 "2004-03-18T13:34:51Z")

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Indeed!

The “Calculer vos tarifs” button on the page you unearthed is exactly what I looked for.

Thank you!