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HCMC's French-style main post office Add: 2 Cong Xa Paris Tel: 829 6555 with its glass canopy and iron frame, is right next lo Noire Dame Cathedral. Built between 1886 and 1891, it is the largest post office in Vietnam and worth visiting just for its architecture.
Customers conduct their post and telecommunications business here under the benevolent gaze of Ho Chi Minh. To your right as you enter the building is the poste restante counter. Pens, envelopes, aerograms, postcards and stamp collections are sold at the counter to the right of the entrance, and outside the post office along D Nguyen Du.
Countless other post office branches are scattered around town and those in Pham Ngu Lao and Cholon are marked on the relevant maps. Like the main post office, many of these also keep late hours.
The following private carriers operate near the main post office:
DHL Add: 2 Cong Xa Paris Tel: 823 1525 Opened: 7.30am - 4.30pm Mon-Sat Federal Express Add: cnr Pasteur and Le Thanh Tong street Opened: 7am - 8 pm Mon - Fri, 7am - 4 pm Sat Tel: 829 0995 Website: www .fedex.com
Saigon Logistics Add: 293 Pham Ngu Lao street Tel: 837 3435 Opened: 8am - 5.30pm Mon-Sat Deals in freight forwarding, if you've out-shopped yourself.
UPS Add: 80 Nguyen Du street Tel: 824 3597 Website: www.tips.com Opened: 7.30am-4.30pm Mon-Sat
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