Today, you receive more emails than nice hand written letters, you worry less aboutcatalogs and other advertising materials because you receive thousands of mailings in your inbox, e-invoices & bank e-statements are now the rule… In China, delivery services are also quite flexible for delivery time and anyway, you can still ask for your orderto be delivered at the management office of your building. If you need to send a letter or a package, your Chinese colleagues will help you in the office.

Let’s say that you could live in Beijing without Post Office, but it is always good to know the location ofPost Offices in Beijing: You may need to send a gift to your home country or send post cards from Beijing to your family…

Where are located Post Offices in Beijing?

You can find a list of Post Offices located in Dongcheng, Xicheng, and Chaoyang districts. For other post offices, please refer to the website of BEIJINGPOST. Most post offices are open daily from 08:30-09:30 to 16:00-18:00.

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Services available in Post Offices

1. Express mail:EMS or Express Mail Services forquick delivery of mail (including next day services).
   1. Express delivery within China Mainlandfor the fast delivery of documents and packages.
   2. Domestic Economy Express service for safe delivery of valuablegoods.
   3. Next Morning Delivery.
   4. Domestic Expedited Parcel (Mainly transported by road)
2. International express mailfor posting parcels, letters and documents overseas.
   1. International Express Mail service for posting documents, letters and goods: You can track your mailing from the website.
   2. China International Express is another option for international postage with good tracking facilities.
   3. International Parcel service for sendingparcels and packages around the world.
3. Other Post Office services: Like anywhere in the world, Post companies diversified the offer. In China, you can bookflight, send personalized greetings cards, receive newspaper and subscribe to magazine, realize online payment, book hotel and shop online.

Prepare your visit to the Post Office!

Unless you are a very lucky person, you will not meet Englishspeaking staff in post offices. You’d better speak a little bit of Chinese or make sure you have all the information written.

The staff will first have to copy the address on a template and then encode it in the computer: as the staff is not used to write Latin characters, you will feel it last for an eternity. Double check the information and even more carefully if you hand- wrote the information. In case you send a letter in China, make sure you have the contact details in Chinese characters!

You will also need to give your contact details: bringyour home address in Chinese characters.

Sending a letter < 20 g will cost you less than 10 RMB (international aviation mailing). You can find all the rates from the China Post Website, section Rates.

If you are shipping goods, the staff will have to check what you are sending and if they are not sure, they will refuse you the shipment. Don’t close the packaging otherwise, you will have to reopen it. You can purchase boxes from the post office and you will findcrumpled newspaper.

Buying stamps 马甸in Beijing

Most of letters will be sent with a printed stamp, but if you are into philatelyor if you prefer a real stamp rather than a sticker, you will have to make a special inquiry. Stamps are not available in all post offices.You may also need to order in advance if you need many (~20 stamps).

By the way, post offices also do sell postcards. Like stamps, postcards are not sold at every corner of the street, you can buy at sights, post offices and in some international book stores (Page One…).

By the way, for philatelists, you may purchase limited editions Chinese stamps from the China National Philatelic Center.