There are many courier services, but it’s quite a unique experience going to a post office and dropping a postcard in a postbox. Well, there are some post offices that are even more fun and you’ll find some of them below.
A very cold post office way down south!
If you hate to stand in queues, there is one post office you’ll love to check out on the isolated continent of Antarctica. Despite its very extreme south location, Port Lockroy Post Office is a very popular tourist destination for those who visit Antarctica. Not surprisingly, around 70,000 mails are posted from this unique post office every year! It’s also called Penguin Post Office. Just don’t expect your mail to be delivered the next day. After all, an Antarctica postmark is worth waiting for a couple of months to arrive, right?
A floating post office
If you’ve visited Kashmir, chances are that you already know this 200-year-old floating post office, the only one of its kind in our country. Located in the Dal Lake in Srinagar, this post office features a decorative wooden lattice work. All mail processed here bear the unique houseboat postmark. It turns out that the post office staff consider themselves lucky to be working here; it’s such a pleasant location that they don’t even need a fan!
Should you need to mail underwater…
You’re in Hideaway Island, Vanuatu, a lovely Pacific island near Australia. You’re scuba diving and suddenly inspiration strikes – how about sending a postcard to your friends to boast about this unique achievement? As strange as it, may sound, it is possible to find your nearest post office close by and underwater, of course. For a post office located nine feet underwater, it sure is a busy place, with visitors eager to mail out special waterproof cards!
Forget stamps, post mail in a barrel
When you think of Galapagos Island, you will probably think of giant tortoises, wildlife and maybe Charles Darwin. You might not be thinking of a post office. Yet, this island has a unique stampless postal system set up by sailors so that their mail could be delivered by passing ships (that took a stop there) to their families. This humble post office consists of al humble barrel set up to collect letters until someone came along to take them.
A post office atop a volcano
Mount Fuji in Japan is famous – it’s an active volcano, after all. A post office located on top of this volcanic mountain is popular among tourists. However, transporting all the mail to other parts of the country from atop the peak takes some effort that is why a special bulldozer collects all the crates of mail downhill.
Finally, coconut mail…
The Hoolehua Post Office in Molokai, Hawaii, is a favourite spot for tourists and coconut lovers. Every day, fresh coconuts are collected and stocked here for people to send to their family, friends and loved ones anywhere in the world. The coconuts, apparently, are free and all they need to reach someone is the postal fee. More interestingly, these coconuts can be decorated and pasted with colourful stickers before they are mailed.
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