Sheung Wan Post Office

Anyone who knows me for like a minute will figure out that I love mail. Hate the junk, solicitations and bills, but I love the hand written note and card. I am old school that way and believe in putting pen to paper with the written word.
I was happy to find a post office in my hood when we recently moved to Sheung Wan. As an English speaking person, I was happy to find all individuals who are working at the post office speak English. They are quite nice really… dealing with those often long lines of people all day, I am glad they all seem quite nice.
Avoid the long lines and absolutely do not go around the end or the beginning of the month, where it seems like every 8 out of 10 people in line are there to pay a bill. Horribly convenient if you want to pay a bill (versus on-​line I suppose), but horribly inconvenient if like me that you are sending snail mails like birthday cards and postcards back to the US. There are moments when I am here and feel like this is really a bill paying facility that happens to do postage.
There is an «express» line if you have 3 bills or less and it is hit or miss if that lane is busy.
I also find the post office is the only place that I can spend the abundance of small coinage like 5, 10, 50 cent pieces where they do not look at me in horror when I whip out my change purse. Good way to get rid of the small change we accumulate all too often in Hong Kong.