Hong Kong Post

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Hong Kong Post
香港 郵政
legal form Trading fund
founding 1841
August 1, 1995 in today's form
Seat General Post Office
2 Connaught Place
Central Hong Kong
Hong KongHong Kong 
management Postmaster General Cathy Chu Man-ling ( 朱 曼 鈴 )
Number of employees 6681 (2018)
Post offices 124 (April 2019)
Branch Postal services
Website hongkongpost.hk
Main Post Office and Headquarters (2006)

Hong Kong Post ( Chinese  香港 郵政 , Pinyin Xiānggǎng Yóuzhèng , Jyutping Hoeng 1 Gong 2 Jau 4 Zing 3 ) is the state-owned postal company of Hong Kong . It is based in the General Post Office in the Central district .

history

Anniversary postage stamp from 1891

The company goes back to the British Post Office in China , which opened the city's first post office in Central under the Royal Mail in 1841 and operated under its name until 1860. Subsequently, the name was changed to Hong Kong Post and the first Hong Kong postage stamps appeared in 1862. These showed the portrait of Victoria and were to be used from 1864 onwards. For around 100 years, images of the respective monarchs were common on postage stamps, and other motifs were only introduced from the 1960s. Airmail was offered from 1936 ; up to now, shipments to England were carried on the Trans-Siberian Railway . In 1877 Hong Kong became a member of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), where it is now called Hong Kong, China is part of the Chinese delegation . The company is also a member of the Asian-Pacific Postal Union (APPU) and the Asia Pacific Post Cooperative . In 1980 a mail center for international processing was opened in Hung Hom , followed in 1998 at the new Hong Kong Airport . In 1989 a mail sorting system was installed in the main post office. In 2014, the Central Mail Center opened in Kowloon Bay , replacing Hung Hom's mail center and the sorting system from the main post office. There are also plans to move the General Post Office to Kowloon Bay.

Products

In addition to the usual delivery of letters and parcels, Hong Kong Post also offers a courier service under the name SpeedPost Express Mail Service . There is also a separate department for the marketing of philatelic products. The company also acts as a payment service provider and offers separate services for companies. In the 2018/19 financial year, 907 million local letters, 286 million abroad and 790,000 parcels were sent. Hong Kong Post had 124 post offices as of April 2019, 30 of which are on Hong Kong Island , 35 in Kowloon and 56 in the New Territories and Islands District . There are also three “mobile post offices” that travel to more remote areas according to a fixed timetable.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19. Hongkong Post, 2019, accessed November 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Hong Kong Fact Sheet. Hongkong Post, October 22, 2019, accessed November 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ You've got mail… but no postcode: why Hong Kong does not use such numbers. South China Morning Post , September 29, 2018, accessed November 25, 2019 .
  4. ^ "History in Miniature: The 150th Anniversary of Stamp Issuance in Hong Kong" exhibition. Hong Kong Museum of History , September 20, 2019, accessed November 26, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Hong Kong post office HQ to be demolished to make way for offices in plan to transform Central harbourfront. South China Morning Post , July 21, 2017, accessed November 26, 2019 .

Web links

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