Building of Shantou General Post Office

Near Shantou Small Park, it is very old-fashioned. It turned out that this architectural style is called continental, and it has a long knowledge. There are several interesting small sculptures at the door to take pictures. The place inside is not big, just understand the history of Shantou Post.

There will be post offices in places with history, because this is the earliest way I have communicated, Shantou General Post Office building is very bold, standing in the distance you will feel this is a turbulent, what a luxurious building. Now we can still walk in and see the scenery inside, including there is still a postal business in it.

The General Post Office Building is located opposite the Kaixuan Cultural Exhibition Hall in Shantou. It is commonly known as the "Old Anping Post Office" or "Anping Post Office". It was built in 1922 and has been standing for nearly a hundred years. The theme building of the old post office is two floors, carved above the main entrance. "Post" is still very clear, the second floor recessed to form a balcony, so that the whole building has the characteristics of the tide riding building, is one of the most spectacular buildings in Shantou at that time. There are many items used by the post at that time, including the green bicycles of the postal service, The pouch used during the Republic of China, as well as the office scene at the post office at that time, is very commemorative.

A very historic General Post Office building, a node leading to Fujian. It is a building in the early years of the Republic of China.

The building of Shantou General Post Office, commonly known as the "Old Anping Post Office" or "Anping Post Office", is the first self-built post office since Shantou opened, witnessing the history of the development of Shantou, Guangdong and even China Post Communications. Together with Guangzhou Post Museum, it has become the two most complete postal entities in Guangdong's postal system, with European architectural style. It belongs to the municipal cultural relics protection unit. There are postcards with Shantou characteristics on the first floor of the old post office and free commemorative postmark covers. In addition to understanding the post office culture, the environment at the door of the post office is also good, there are also bronze made of Daqing and the postman and postbox of the Republic of China, with the Greek pillar of European style, you can take pictures of nostalgic folk customs.