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  2. Hongkong Post - Wikipedia

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    Hongkong Post is a government department of Hong Kong responsible for postal services, though operated as a trading fund. Founded in 1841, it was known as Postal Department or Post Office [2] (Chinese: 郵政署) before the handover of Hong Kong in 1997.

  3. Postage stamps and postal history of Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    General Post Office circa 1911. The postal system in the British colony of Hong Kong began in 1841 when the Royal Mail established the first General Post Office in the region. [1] [2] Between 1841 and 1862, no stamps were issued, and postmarks were used to certify payment of the postage instead.

  4. General Post Office, Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    Below the building is the interchange of Hong Kong station and Central station of MTR. World-Wide House, an office block, was constructed above ground. Joseph Ting, former chief curator of the Hong Kong Museum of History, regarded the 1911 General Post Office as Hong Kong's most beautiful building. [3]

  5. List of Hong Kong post offices - Wikipedia

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    Post offices are scattered throughout Hong Kong. All of them are managed by Hongkong Post. As of 2020, there are 30 post offices on Hong Kong Island, 35 in Kowloon, 48 in the New Territories and eight on the Outlying Islands. There are also three mobile post offices providing postal services in remote areas in the New Territories.

  6. British post offices in China - Wikipedia

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    This lasted until the Chinese Liu Kung Tau Post Office was opened in March 1899, and it was in turn replaced by a British post office on 1 September 1899. A second British Post Office was opened at Port Edward in 1904. Hong Kong stamps overprinted CHINA continued in use in both offices until the settlement was given up on 1 October 1930.

  7. Old Wan Chai Post Office - Wikipedia

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    The Old Wan Chai Post Office is the oldest surviving post office building in Hong Kong. [1] It is situated at No. 221 Queen's Road East , at the junction with Wan Chai Gap Road . History

  8. Postal codes in Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    Hongkong Post advised to leave the postcode field blank or try to fill in with "000", "0000", "000000" or "HKG" wherever required. [1] The People's Republic of China's national postal service, China Post , has allocated postal code 999077 to Hong Kong, although this is only sporadically used when sending mail from Mainland China. [ 2 ]

  9. Postage stamps and postal history of China - Wikipedia

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    The "Large Dragons", China's first postage stamps, 1878, of the Chinese: 郵政局; pinyin: yóuzhèngjú post office. The history of the postage stamps and postal history of China is complicated by the gradual decay of Imperial China and the years of civil war and Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 1940s.