Today, it is increasingly common to find prepaid cards of all kinds on the market, not only for telephony, but also for other services such as television, internet and banking. The latter are intended for users who want buy safely online or who want to control the expenses of their children or relatives.
Postepay is a prepaid card that is available through the Italy postal service, Italian Mail, does not require the opening of an account, works both inside and outside Italy to pay and withdraw money and also can also be used to make purchases online and is compatible with PayPal.
Postepay cards are not anonymous, since in order to obtain one it is necessary to use our documentation or passport and pay the 5 euros that the activation costs. Each recharge has a cost of 1 euro which is deducted from the recharged amount, regardless of the method used. But How to recharge Postepay?
Next we show you all methods to recharge Postepay prepaid cards.
How to recharge Postepay
Postepay puts at our disposal a large number of options to recharge these prepaid cards, methods that allow any user to recharge the balance of their cards regardless of where they are, depending on the means available to them.
From the Italian Mail website
The fastest and easiest method to recharge a Postepay prepaid card is visiting your page [web](https://www.postepay.it). From this website, you can use a BancoPosta card to recharge the prepaid card, you can transfer money from another Postepay prepaid card to another as long as they belong to the same holder. You can also recharge Postepay prepaid card through a credit or debit bank card from Visa, Visa Electron, Vpay and Mastercard.
With the Postepay application
If you want to recharge your Postepay prepaid card from your mobile, visiting their website is not an option. In this case, the most comfortable method is to use the application available for iOS and Android, an application that we can download for free.
Once we have downloaded and installed the application, we must enter our account information. Next, we have the option of transfer money from another prepaid card that we have associated with our same account, or make a recharge through the Visa, Visa Electron, Vpain or Mastercard cards.
https://apps.apple.com/es/app/postepay/id533159911
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=posteitaliane.posteapp.apppostepay
With the BancoPosta application
The issuer of the Postepay card is BancoPosta. This allows us to use the BancoPosta application, as long as we are clients of this bank, to recharge our prepaid PostePay card.
As in the previous options, we can transfer money from one Postepay prepaid account to another or use a Credit or debit card associated with our account to recharge the Postepay card.
At any Italian Post office
If you do not like to recharge online, or you do not have that option at hand, the simplest option is through visit a post office of Correo Italia.
From any Correo Italia office, you can use your credit or debit card to top up your prepaid card. You can also use cash or a traditional credit or debit card, whatever the bank, does not necessarily have to be from BancoPosta.
Postamat ATMs
Another interesting and quick solution to recharge a borrowed Postepay card is to use a ATM. Through an ATM, we can use another Postepay prepaid card to recharge another that we have, a credit or debit card from BancoPosta or use any credit or debit card from any other bank that is attached to the Visa, Visa Electron network , Vpay, Mastercard and Maestro.
From a Postepay card sales point
Postepay prepaid cards are not only sold in post offices, but they are also available in other businesses such as tobacconists, kiosks and some shopping centers.
Being available in a wide variety of shops, this also allows us to recharge our prepaid Postepay card through these establishments.
La minimum recharge that we can carry out is 1 euros with a maximum of 997,99 euros per operation. As if we want to recharge the Postepay prepaid card through post offices, to do so through other businesses, it is necessary to present both the physical card and a valid identification document.
You also need the card with the tax code issued by the Italian Tax Agency, the regional health card or an electronic identity card with the certification of the fiscal code.
Without leaving home
Another interesting option for people who want to do the physical recharge but do not want to move from home, is comfortably from their home or workplace through the Authorized postmen of Correo Italia paying with a Posamat, Postepay or Maestro card.
It also can request a postman visit in your home or workplace without additional sewing, beyond the cost associated with recharging (which, as I mentioned above, is 1 euro).
BPM group users
All BPM group clients, who have a checking account in one of the banks that are part of this group of banks, can recharge their cards through their online banking platform. They just have to look for the recharges section on their portal and select Postepay.
Automatic recharge
A method that, perhaps is the most appropriate when we want a minor to use a card of this type, goes through set up an automatic recharge through the different platforms that I have mentioned in this article.
Automatic recharges can be weekly, every 15 days or every month. Or, we can configure the operation of this card so that, when the balance falls below a certain amount, a recharge will be automatically made against the payment method that we have previously selected.
Refill availability
All the recharges that are made through the different methods that I have mentioned in this article are done immediately, so there is no need to wait for the next day or several days to see the recharged balance reflected on the Postepay card.
