Where would a post office be the farthest in the world? Can it be a place where there is no population? Yes, there is a post office which is in such a place which does not belong to any one country. People come here to visit only for a few days. Still this post office is active and sends thousands of cards every year to more than a hundred countries of the world. The story of its establishment is also no less interesting. You will be surprised to know that this post office of Britain is in Antarctica, where the population is only penguins.
Britain’s southernmost public post office is at Port Lockroy on remote Goudier Island. The island, home to more than a thousand penguins, is part of the British Antarctic Territory. It was established on 11 February 1944 during the Second World War. Since November 1996 the site of the former research base has been run as a museum, attracting 18,000 visitors each season. This was also the year the post office was established, which is today the world’s most remote post office.
. This post office is basically meant for the workers on the island and some tourists. That’s why it is very active. The post office sends about 70,000 cards to more than 100 countries every year. Sarah Auffret, a former employee of Port Lockroy ends of the earth While talking to , he spoke openly about this unique post office.
People think that no one lives on this island. But this is not true. (Symbolic picture: Canva)
“It costs US$1 to send a postcard, regardless of the destination. The team delivers the postcards by hand – on a busy day there can be more than 1,000. They are then bundled, weighed and packed into bags. Each season about 500 kilograms of mail is packed into bags by the team, and delivered to the Falklands by the expedition ship when weather and ice permit,” he said.
The Stanley Post Office in the Falklands puts it on the weekly Royal Air Force plane to the UK. Only then does it reach the regular postal service. A postcard from Port Lockroy to Cambridge takes at most two weeks.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : June 26, 2024, 08:51 IST
