Can anyone confirm that 225 Beijing Lu is still the right address for the Main (International) Post Office. It seems to move with some regularity! I want to send some packages, rather than pick anything up. Thanks.

@Ocean

Yes that's it. Well close, not too many numbers on the building so maybe 223. Mailed some stuff last Saturday.

So can someone confirm the cross street closest to number 223 or 235 Beijing Lu? Is it close to Renmin or Tuodong? or further north?

Anyone having problems receiving mail from overseas recently? We have had 1 package "disappear" despite having a tracking number etc (according to the local courier they said it was "lost" after being stuck in customs for 3 months... yes you read that right), and now another small envelope sized package has failed to appear at the international post office... over a month after it was sent fast post...

Has China just decided that all overseas post is to be discarded now?

One thing I noticed was that unlike in the past the International Post office can only look for your parcel/letter if you have a tracking number using a computer. Before we used to go to the International Post Office and look through the hand written lists for names,, but they don't have this system anymore. So for normal Airpost letters that don't have tracking number I am not sure how you can even ask the International Post office to look for missing letters.

Which begs the question: what do they do with the ones they don't have a tracking number? We have a post box outside which is never used... why on earth they have this "system" is beyond me.

@bobbles, it's probably a way to bring in even more money. Items that are confiscated or unclaimed are put up for auction and the money goes to the profit of the postal service

In Kunming the mailboxes in most complexes are not used. They don't even care about the letters. They think it's all 'junk mail'. It sucks!

I receive my mail at Yunnan U - pay for a PO Box there. I've had mail show up 5 months late, and a new credit/debit card not show up at all. Recently I sent an EMS envelope, cost me RMB170, overseas. Was opened in Shanghai by customs. Now it's disappeared - I still don't have although the info on this but it seems that Customs opened it, as is their right; found nothing wrong - but then lost it..

Every delivery i get has taken at least a month to get here, sucks big time!