Do you know? In the Shougang Park of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, there is a hidden theme post office called "Beijing 2022". The "ice and snow messages" sent by netizens to the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee and sports were eventually sent from here.
The Beijing 2022 theme post office was upgraded from the original Temporary Post Office for the Winter Olympics on July 31, 2019, the fourth anniversary of the successful bid for the Winter Olympics. The postal day stamp, postal code, special mailbox number, and internal layout of the Beijing 2022 theme post office are full of Beijing Winter Olympic elements. In particular, the "Beijing 2022" postal day stamp is the most precious commemoration when postal fans send out winter Olympic blessings.
Li Bo, head of the theme post office, said that since the theme post office opened, it has been in a busy state of business, and can receive and send hundreds of letters every day, and the business volume can reach four or five thousand when it is large. Not only are users in Beijing buying pictorials and sending letters here, but at several important countdown points, there are also foreign postmasters who come by train to send a letter or postcard. There were even people dragging suitcases full of letters from local philatelic circles or from friends and family. Everyone stamped the precious postmark and delivered the Winter Olympic blessings from here.
Li Bo remembers that the most popular day was January 16, 2020, when the commemorative stamp of "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Mascot and Winter Paralympic Mascot" was released, when they received and sent 50,000 or 60,000 emails. Postcards and souvenir covers with ice piers, snow melting stamps, or cute images of these two are sent from here.
Earlier, the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee launched a 100-day "Winter Olympics Duty Student Program", inviting netizens to write postcards by hand to bless the ice and snow athletes who came to China from afar to compete. Letters and postcards flew in like snowflakes from all over the world, and the mailbox of 102022 belonging to the Organizing Committee of the Winter Olympics received tens of thousands of letters of love. Whether it is the scribble of 7-year-old children or the long scrolls of carefully drawn handwritten letters, they are full of blessings and love. Li Bo said that in order to deliver these letters, the post office implements a special responsibility system, and the two people are specifically responsible for the processing, sorting and storage of imported mail. In addition, a special room was vacated to store the letters separately.
Among these letters from all over the world, Li Bo found that the most frequent name was Yusheng Knot. The famous Japanese figure skater became the recipient of the most blessings. Because of this receiving and sending work, the staff of the post office also became familiar with the athlete and felt the love and support of friends from all over the world for the sports.