THE POSTAL SERVICE: AN OMNIPRESENCE

As an effective means for postal communications to be transformed into social benefits and economic returns, the postal service naturally has service as its most important mandate. Persistent in the principles of a people's post and telecommunication service must serve the people ,the postal service sector has always spared little effort in building up both a qualified staff and facilities. Sticking to the industrial motto of fast, accurate, secure and convenient service, the service has been actively nurturing business growth and providing all possible service to the community.

In large and medium cities, county seats towns and villages in the developed coastal areas, the Postal Service has focused on the construction of offices and their hardware upgrading, uplifting service levels, installing advanced equipment, bettering serving environments, and improving service quality. Meanwhile, in view of the vastness and the unbalanced economic and cultural development, the Postal Service has developed various joint, commissioned, and cooperative postal agencies with local governments and other community entities.

By far, the total number of post offices in China has increased from 50,000 in 1980 to 84,000 in 1998, with outlets of other nature or management also on the rise. Now the postal service has made its way to communities, institutions, schools, universities, malls and stores, restaurants, hotels, office towers factories, villages, mountains forests, snow plateaus, frontier outposts-all quarters and corners where there are people. In other words, where there are people, there are footprints of the mailman.

Postal staff members are doing every effort to meet the needs of customers. They actively adopt various measures to make services convenient for their clients, improving service level and quality wherever possible. Perhaps the field mailmen merit a special remark of appreciation here for their tough job. They go out early and come back late. Many of them have to crawl up mountain paths and ford streams before delivering a piece of mail. Despite uncountable difficulties, they always fulfill their tasks. As an appreciation for their services, many mailmen, operators, escorts and other postal workers have been awarded titles such as "advanced workers" and "model workers".

In the postal industry, the are frequent contests, competition, and other events among all postal staff members for outstanding work methods, high quality services, and demonstrations of mastery of particular work skills. With the qualification system of requiring every worker to implemented, the postal service is now entering a new era where they will offer new products, and provide standardized and quality-committed services to all clientele.

• Postal service linking the love of tens of thousands of households 
• Citizens are eager to subscribe to newspapers and periodicals
• Subscribing meeting for newspapers and periodicals
• The computer processing system for the distribution of newspapers and periodicals
• Newspapers and periodicals retailing counter
• Being active in postal service marketing, the woman sales group in ancient city Xi'an was named "postal sales model collective of shanxi province "in 1997
• The national model worker, a staff member from the Summer Palace Post office in Beijing ,Xu Guofu serves the masses whole hestedly
• The national postal model worker Yu Shihai was publicizing postal savings in a lane
• The business hall of the Railway Station Post Office (Shanghai)
• Electrolyzed service hall (Guizhou) 
• One-touch multi medium inquiring service
• A postal service counter in a supermarket
• Mailboxes in the residential area 
  To solve the problem of providing postal service for those living in tower buildings, improve end-service, as well as raising service level, postal units publicized extensively and set up mailboxes or in some cases, fixed mailbox rooms to satisfy the customers' needs. Therefore, it would be much more convenient for them to collect letters, newspapers and periodicals
• The street kiosk selling newspapers and periodicals
• The new type of postal kiosk is honored as "mini post office" for it's various functions and service available (Hainan)
• Mini fair for mail-order products (Xinjiang)
• The international business hall of the post bureau (kunming)
• Trudging over mountains. Mailmen often carry mails to remote areas, even if there are only a few letters to deliver few letters to deliver
• Fording rivers
• To tramp over mountains. Mailman at the foot of the Great Wall
• Having crossed over hills and dales, the mailmen deliver letters and newspapers to mines
• Letters are delivered to minority regions
• Mails have been transferred to Tibet
• Striving to dispatch mails
• Much more mails being transferred during Spring Festival