Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Saigon post office delivers on style

By Brian Johnston
July 18 2015 - 12:15am
Old world charm of the Ho Chi Minh City post office. Photo: Brian Johnston
Old world charm of the Ho Chi Minh City post office. Photo: Brian Johnston
The clock above the entrance of the Ho Chi Minh City post office. Photo: Brian Johnston
The clock above the entrance of the Ho Chi Minh City post office. Photo: Brian Johnston
The clock above the entrance of the Ho Chi Minh City post office. Photo: Brian Johnston
The clock above the entrance of the Ho Chi Minh City post office. Photo: Brian Johnston
The clock above the entrance of the Ho Chi Minh City post office. Photo: Brian Johnston
The clock above the entrance of the Ho Chi Minh City post office. Photo: Brian Johnston

In this era of Instragrams and emails, sending postcards is a thing of the past. When I was young, I stamp-licked in colonial-era post offices across Asia, and picked up my poste restante at Singapore's GPO. It's years since I was in an overseas post office but, luckily, Ho Chi Minh City's is hard to miss.

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