Old Wanchai Post Office
Old Wan Chai Post Office is located on Queen's
Road East at the junction with Wanchai Gap road. The Post Office
was built between 1912 to 1913 , was officially opened on March 1, 1915
as the Wan Chai Post Office. It is now Hong Kong's oldest
surviving post office
building and a great example of the architecture of the time. The building is now a declared monuments in Hong Kong
and has been used by
the Environmental Protection Department since 1993 as an Environmental
Resource Centre displaying environmental
information and pictures. You can go inside and see the old
architecture and the beautiful old style red post office boxes.
Admission is free.
It is no longer a functioning post office, if you wish to send a
postcard use the nearby Hong Kong post office at 2/F Wu Chung House,
197-213 Queen's Road East.