Old San Juan Post Office
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I’m in Rome now, where also is the Vatican Post at the Vatican City. As far es I know there are three post offices. One in the Vatican museums, which I don’t show. Second is left of the Peter’s Cathedral.
and the third is just on the place before
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What beautiful architecture.
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I live in the old part of the city, here are all such buildings. very beautiful. time spoils the view.
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In Finland mail services are mainly provided by shops. (My British pal refers them as “postal partners”). This small shop (R-Kioski) situated in Rovaniemi town centre is one of them.
You can’t see it in this photo but one of the neon signs has Posti logo on it. There is also a mailbox next to the door. If you get registered mail, you must fetch it from these kind of shops. For packages you can use also package automats.
Three years ago Posti announced there will be only 6 post offices in the whole country by 2021, as there are plenty of postal partners providing services. There is only one post office in Northern Finland and that is Santa’s main post office at the Arctic circle.
The left mail box is only for Christmas mail (the mail will be sent in December), the right mail box is for normal mail.
Cosy corner inside the post office.
(The pictures were taken last summer. I don’t live close enough to visit this place very often).
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The post office in the Moscow region, Pushkinsky district, is located in a village house, opposite it there is a well from which water is collected
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I moved recently from one side of town to the other side. The nearby post office is called Prairiewood and it’s a nice building dating from the 1980s.
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I was in the neighborhood I used to live in earlier today, and I had a package to send. So I go to the post office I would frequent, only to see it demolished ! There was a feeling of genuine sadness. It was the most ragged post office, but I loved it nonetheless.
Before:
After (This image is from a local online publication - could not take a photo myself since I was driving):
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MCPO or Manila Central Post Office
(PHILIPPINES 
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Our neoclassical style post office building located in Liwasang Bonifacio, city of MANILA.
The original building was designed by Juan M. Arellano and Tomás Mapúa. The construction of the building began on 1926 under the supervision of the architecture firm of Pedro Siochi and Company. Proposals for the completion of the Manila Post Office Building were made known on November 28, 1927, but the awarding of the project was made only in 1928. However, it was severely damaged in World War II during the Battle of Manila and was subsequently rebuilt in 1946 while retaining most of its original design. #PostOffice
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The details are stunning!
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I couldn’t agree more 
Thank you for posting this; I found the official announcement here:
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/local-releases/ca/2022/0106-sanford-po-to-move.htm
According to the USPS website location finder, it seems the proposed relocation to a new facility has not yet happened, as it doesn’t come up in a search. The nearest Post Office is the Oakwood station. Decades ago I went to the Oakwood station to pick up my college diploma, which had been sent by certified mail. Somehow the clerk knew what it was and congratulated me on the achievement. That was a good postal experience.
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This is my local post office too! I was about to post pictures but you got there first 
I just wanted to add the old post boxes that are on the outside that I find really cool:
Source of image here
I usually just use a postbox but when I want to use the self service machines I come here (it’s a lot smaller inside than you may expect though). Sometimes I will visit other local post offices in the area for certain stamps though.
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Pretty bland post office I stopped at in Fillmore, California, but it had a nice quilt hanging up inside!
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Hello everyone! I finally took a pic of my little township satellite post office located inside our local hardware store in Pennsylvania, USA. My friendly postal lady Janet wanted to hide from the image. I could post mail from my house, but I like to pop over and mail the cards and letters directly from here if my work schedule allows.
I have enjoyed the variety of images - keep them coming!
Karen @Cerimoon
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Today I visited a poor post office in the suburb of my city. It is called Qixia Post Office
The counter
The delivery office is just beside the counter. The mail will go directly to the delivery office for processing after acceptance.
A tiny TV is on the wall to promote the new stamp. Although they don’t sell it in this post office.
The look of the Post Office from the outside. It is located together with a hotel.
The bus stop across the street.
The surrounding of the Post Office. It is located near the oil factory in our city.
However, they do have a beautiful scenery postmark there.
A very interesting thing is that the original post office clerk there is absent today so there is only a delivery man there to help accept mail. He has never accepted International mail before so I have to teach him to fill in the info and register them in the system. Luckily, it was safely done and the mail is successfully accepted.
International A.R. mail accepted there
The receipt
This one is Fuzimiao Post Office. It was originally the post and telecommunications office of the entire city.
It still remains the decoration of the ROC period and is a historical building preserved by the city government. (Sorry that I forgot to take a picture inside)
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I always take pictures of the post offices I visit. They might not be my post offices (I live in Geneva, Switzerland), but I thought it’d still be interesting for you guys to see my pics! (It’s always so interesting to see the postmarks from each one of these post offices!)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo)
Bosnia has three different postal services. I also saw the one in Banja Luka (Republika Srpska), and I know Mostar has a Croat one. I think the other two postal services have received their own country codes, which means that, for instance, international mail sent to the Serbian part of Bosnia won’t need to be sorted in Sarajevo. Sorting will happen in Banja Luka instead… It’s sad to see how divided this country is (and travelling there shows you the extent to which things are different in the different parts).
China (Wenzhou)
I think they put the wrong letters here – it should be “China Post” (and this is what most of the post offices in China say)… Or maybe “China Postal [insert another word]”… If you travel to China, you’ll see that many signs show little familiarity with Latin alphabet typefaces, and they will often display bad kerning, among other misspellings! This is perfectly normal though – after all, the Latin alphabet isn’t China’s main writing system!
Egypt (Alexandria)
I walked around Alexandria’s alleyways and got a glimpse of everyday life – shops, teahouses and homes… At the post office, they went through each postcard I wrote, in order to decipher the countries of the recipients (I tried to label everything in Arabic to be helpful). I then took this picture, but was immediately told not to do it… Is there a rule in Egypt? Maybe post offices are government owned, and I know from experience that many countries won’t let you take pics of government buildings…
Kenya (Masai Mara, Nairobi, Narok)
The first one is in the middle of the savannah. As you can see from the writing of the wall, “Masai Mara” can also be spelled as “Maasai Mara”. The postmark says “Masaai Mara” though, which, I believe, is wrong
Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek, Karakol, Osh)
Bishkek’s main post office is really beautiful. Its interiors are decorated with colourful mosaics. There’s also a clock tower next to the post office that locals call “the Big Ben”! I also went to the cities of Karakol and Osh. The postal system works great, although, for some reason, none of the 15+ postcards I sent in May made it to their destination…
Mexico (San Cristóbal de las Casas)
Nice post office with a hand painted sign (so many signs in Mexico are hand painted!). I asked them whether they had stamps and they said that they didn’t, and told me where I could find them (it was the next big city down the motorway).
Morocco (Fès, Marrakesh, Rabat)
The post office in Rabat is really beautiful! I remember I woke up super early just to go to the post office before the tour started. All the postcards I sent from Morocco reached their destination (except the ones I dropped at the post office in Chefchaouen… The city was very very pretty though!).
Turkmenistan (Daşoguz)
Postally speaking, this was the cheapest country I’d been to. I got around 20 stamps for the postcards I wanted to send, and the total price wasn’t even 3 euros. (That’s because Turkmenistan has a very tricky currency exchange situation, which makes government services super cheap…) The stamps were beautiful too, and all the postcards were dropped at the post office in the city of Mary (forgot to take pics!).
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