Apologies in advance for this post having nothing to do with a post office. Anyway(s), I was at Xijiao State Guest Hotel last night, and found in my room’s drawers some envelopes preprinted with the hotel’s name, address and logo. Such envelopes, specifically designed for major institutions and other “units (danwei)” — an umbrella term …
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For time and proportionality’s sake my excursion to South Shaanxi Rd. Post Office was a short one. For time’s, because I went there after lunch on a workday — my internship is at a firm not too far off, but still, spending any more time at the post office would mean less time at the …
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I happened upon another post office earlier today while visiting Shanghai Mart, which in its proper Chinese name should be known as the World Trade Building or the World Trade Shopping Center (“世贸商城”). Built in 1999, presumably in anticipation of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization and its subsequent opening-up, the complex still retains …
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Featuring: Postal vans, postal electric bicycles, EMS logistics and stamps. As promised, a second go at Shanghai’s postal facilities the day after my first, this time the postal branch office (“支局”) on Tianshan Rd. Being a “branch” and not a “station,” it is visibly more spacious than its Zhongshan Rd. West counterpart, equipped, other than …
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Well well well, to duly follow up on my earlier post introducing some of Shanghai’s more idiosyncratic postal facilities, today I went to one that is decidedly commonplace — a postal station (albeit titled still as a “post office”) on the section of Changning Rd between West Zhongshan Rd. and Kaixun Rd., which is entirely …
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Any habitual reader of my blog (a species that I suspect does not exist) must know of my interest in things postal, as my quests to several DC post offices hopefully have made clear. However, since this interest grew out of my visit to the National Postal Museum, ever since when I have yet to …
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