Half a century of History of Peking University’s Post Office
Peking University, April 7th ,2017: Since the last half centuries , the post office had played a crucial role in most of the Peking University’s students lives. In the olden days , when there was no wechat or any mobile devices ,post office was a significant medium that helped students to maintain their relationship and keep in touch with the outside world. Letters perhaps was the only way the students could communicate with their friends, families and relatives who were living far away in their hometown. “We used to engage in long distance relationship. I could still remembered vividly that ,during those days, the most important things that happened in my daily lives was to wonder when would I receive my mails or letters from her , my current wife. The first thing I would do after receiving the letter was to read repeatedly, all over again and again….”said by the School of Law’s Master Graduate 1984 Liu Kai Xiang .
Stories that happened in the Post Office
To Liu Kai Xiang, post office not only was his “ Love Interchange Station”,but was also the place where he gathered with his fellow provincial mates. While waiting the queue for sending the letters, Liu Kai Xiang got to know a bunch of friends who came from the same hometown . Basically
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In fact , the business scope that the post office now involves is pretty wide. Besides of sending letters ,post office is also working out in different fields such as remittance , stamp collection ,books subscription and international courier service .In Liu Kai Xiang’s opinion, despite the high competition of the express parcels delivery services and online payment applications , post office is difficult to be replaced , as there are only post offices in most of the suburban and rural areas in
Historically, local communities suggested the name for their Post Offices, subject to the approval of the Post Office Department. The sources of some Post Office names are lost to history; there are no postal records on name origins . Instructions in the 1880s addressed this problem, specifying short names for offices, which would “not resemble the name of any other post office in the United States.” In the 1890s, the instructions were relaxed, calling for names dissimilar to “any other post office in the State. Between 1850 and 1890, the number of Post Offices increased from 18,417 to 62,401.
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