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To protect your personal information, POST Luxembourg wishes to remind you that it is important to change your “@pt.lu” password regularly.

You should choose and use strong and complex passwords that are difficult for automated tools to find or for third parties to guess.

Here are a few suggestions for how best to protect your “@pt.lu” e-mail account:

1. Use a unique password for each service/website/e-mail address. In particular, you should never use the same password as your e-mail password to access another online service. You should also use different passwords for professional and personal e-mail accounts;
2. Select a password that is unrelated to you: do not use a password that contains a company name, date of birth, etc.;
3. Use passwords that are sufficiently complex and long with uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters;
4. Never ask a third party to generate a password for you; 
5. Do not save passwords in a file on a computer that is particularly exposed to risk (e.g.: online) and passwords should under no circumstances be recorded on pieces of paper that are easily accessible;
6. Do not send your passwords to yourself by e-mail;
7. Configure software, including your web browser, in such a way that they do not “remember” your chosen passwords.

Here are some helpful guidelines to follow when changing your password:

1. Change passwords systematically and as soon as possible by default;
2. Renew your passwords at reasonable intervals. Every 90 days is a good compromise for systems that contain sensitive data;

POST Luxembourg will never ask you to send your password by e-mail or to disclose it over the phone. All passwords in our e-mail accounts are encrypted.