My family knows how much I love post offices (I even still love the United States Postal Service and relentlessly support its services by sending items through the system using beautiful stamps). Here in Saigon the central post office is a grand colonial building that shows the influence of Gustave Eiffel. Uncle Ho's portrait presides; you can purchase the right denomination to actually mail a postcard; you can purchase books and gorgeous first day covers or pretty stamps from the past; you can gaze at the huge maps of Vietnam on the walls or consider making an international phone call from one of the many mahogany phone booths lining the corridor with international time clocks above.
I visited a second time at 5 pm on Friday afternoon, and clearly the plaza out front is a meeting place for Saigon young people as they begin their weekends. Fun.
I visited a second time at 5 pm on Friday afternoon, and clearly the plaza out front is a meeting place for Saigon young people as they begin their weekends. Fun.
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