Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/08/20
By Lee Hsien-feng and Y.F. Low

Taipei, Aug. 20 (CNA) Hualien County’s Yuli Township is the only place in Taiwan that still maintains a mobile post office.

Mobile postal services were launched in earlier times by the government, using specially equipped vehicles to serve residents in remote areas. At their height, there were more than 10 such mobile post offices around Taiwan.

As fixed-point post offices became more and more common, most of the mobile postal services were phased out, except for the one in Yuli.

According to Yu Jen-kun (游仁崑), head of the Hualien Post Office, Yuli’s mobile post office was established in 1988, serving six villages in the township: Dewu, Chunrih, Songpu, Guanyin, Dongfeng and Lehe.     [FULL STORY]