Such items include correspondence items, books, catalogues, newspapers, periodicals, postal packages containing merchandise with or without commercial value and paper money orders.

 

Correspondence item – a communication in written form on any kind of physical medium, to be conveyed and delivered at the address indicated by the sender on the item itself or on its wrapping.

 

This category includes letters, telegrams, postal cards.

 

Attention! Books, catalogues, newspapers and periodicals shall not be regarded as correspondence items.

 

Registered item – postal item subject to a service which consists of providing to the sender a document certifying the submission date and, regularly, the payment of the tariff.

 

Cross-border postal item–postal item sent from Romania to an address outside its territory or sent from abroad to an address located on the Romanian territory, and the postal item sent from abroad to an address which is not in Romania but transits its territory.

 

Intra-community postal item–cross-border postal item sent from Romania to another Member State of the European Union or sent from another Member State of the European Union to Romania, and the postal item sent from a Member State of the European Union to another Member State of the European Union which transits Romania.

 

Postal package – postal item weighing maximum 50 kg and containing merchandise with or without commercial value.

 

Direct mail– postal service consisting of a minimum number of 500 domestic and cross-border postal items simultaneously submitted at the same access point, consisting solely of advertising, marketing or publicity material and comprising an identical message, except for the addressee's name, address and identifying number as well as other modifications which do not alter the nature of the message,to be conveyed and delivered at the address indicated by the sender on the item itself or on its wrapping.

 

Attention! The following shall not be regarded as direct mail:

a) bills, invoices, financial statements and other non-identical messages;

b) postal items combining direct mail with other items within the same wrapping.