Someone told me that foreigners receiving international packages in Kunming have to directly pick them up. If that is true, where can I pick it up? Thanks all.

Normally you get a note from the post office that tells you to go to the Beijing Road International Post Office,,with your passport,,to pick up the parcel,,,if you have been waiting for the parcel for a while go there and CHECK THE PARCEL LISTS YOURSELF,,you might get lucky and find it, we have had been there looking for our lost parcels, were told they never came,,but after going through the lists,,found them

Yup, most of the time. Sometimes it can be a pain finding the notification slip. What they stick to your door is not what you need to get your package. Also, you MUST bring your passport with you to the post office.

Usually DHL, FedeX and UPS will deliver to you.

Tip:

I have great success (California to KM in 10-12 days) using this type of address for incoming stuff:

Your name
Your address in pinyin

(space)

_____________________
Your address in hanzi with mobile number

Oh, BTW, the Beijing Lu International Post Office is no more.

You can go to the regular post office about 50M south of where we used to go. Girl got out a piece of paper and tried to read something to the effect of this is now the place to come.

Geezer, what? Where do I go?

that' interesting I get all my international delivered to where I work, why can't you guys ?

When I was teaching the stuff was delivered to the school. But now it is TIC time.

If I am home, I sign and get the pickup slip and head off to the post office.

If I am not at home, a notice, which may not be readable, is stuck on my door. Then I have to go to an alley and find the lady who takes my notice, after I sign it, and she gives me the pickup slip (this took 2 hours, with smart Chinese person, in a taxi, to find the place). Then it is off to Beijing Lu. Getting it at school was better.

@Tommann

You will get a yellow pickup slip. On the back will be a rubber stamped address. That is where you go. I live in the north. If you still live out by Guandu, I have no idea where you go.

They have changed the system. Hard to tell what or how much is changed. I now go to a normal China Post office. It just happens to be 50 meters from where International Post Office was.

Going to a regular China Post office is, well, does "going postal" have any meaning? In Hebei, I went to get a package and this bitch that was trained by the California DMV kept saying "no." But I could see the box on the shelf. Now as laowai are stupid, as well as crazy, she would not listen. I would not budge, people behind me, knowing I am stupid, got angry at me. The ex DMV bitch was also angry. When I finally got a all knowing Chinese guy to actually look—- WOW there was my name on a box on the shelf. Now ex DMV bitch had lost face so she would not look or go get it.

Now I had 6 or 8 allies who were yelling at the bitch. After a bit the workers came out to see what was going on. Finally a stupidvisor came over and told me I DID NOT HAVE A BOX. My new friends on my side of the counter started yelling at him. When he finally turned and looked to where 7 or 8 people were pointing, he saw it.

Geezerism: Always remember, you, the laowai, is stupid and any local can instantly lose face if you are right and he or she is not. Once you offend someone by being right, your troubles begin. Smile and shuffle, deys like dat. Note, it is just like the US post office, or the California DMV.

If your parcel was sent through your home postal service, it can take double the stated time to get here. I waited for one parcel from the US for over 3 months.
I have always had to collect parcels using the postal service.
UPS, FedEx, etc have usually delivered.

If there is no International Post Office any more, just a normal branch, does that mean international parcels can now be SENT from normal branches?