Card no 340 –
Siggi
My friend
Siggi in Germany is helping me to build up a collection of mailboxes and
postboxes from around the world. These
are Chinese.
China Post
(Chinese: 中国邮政), which is the name used by the
State Post Bureau of PRC in business, is the official postal service of the
People's Republic of China. China Post is operated by the State Post Bureau which
is both a regulatory authority and government owned enterprise. Thus it is
responsible for the regulation of the national postal industry and the
management of national postal enterprises.
The current
postal service in the PRC was established in 1949 but some form of postal
service in China can be dated back to the Shang Dynasty which dates back to somewhere
between 1766 BC and 1046 BC.
