Kai Tak Airport Post Office [????-1998]

Submitted by HCIIL on Tue, 05/28/2024 - 05:45
Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date closed / demolished

The Kai Tak Airport Post Office closed for business at Kai Tak at 8.30 pm on July 4 1998 (Saturday).

Source: https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/199806/26/0626134.htm

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Old cover sent to England in 1961 from the Kai Tak Airport Post Office with the blue six-bar cancel
1961
A cover sent to the USA in 1961 from the Kai Tak Airport Post Office with the blue six-bar cancel
1961
A cover sent to Canada in 1961 from the Kai Tak Airport Post Office with the blue six-bar cancel
1961

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Hi there,

I believe the Post Office should be somewhere inside the passenger terminal.  Thus the marker should be moved closer towards present day Sung Wong Toi MTR station.

T

Prior to the closure of Kai Tak Airport in 1998, the Airport Post Office was located in the Departure Hall of the Passenger Terminal Building after the building's completion in 1962. Between 1962 and 1998, the Post Office had changed locations several times and was sited in different offices within the Departure Hall.

Noting the three letters that have been recently added to Gwulo and postmarked "Kai Tak 1961", the Airport Post Office at the time would have likely been in the Departure Hall of the Temporary Terminal Building (1959-1962).

Further information on openings and closures of post offices at: http://www.cpa-hk.net/hkpost/hkpost.htm?fbclid=IwAR3PkuxDNiAn7EKUqU7gN5f91Gy6ojb-6DWKXa57Lz6tfzVrtVopRbGj77A