Post Shop @ Australia & My Posting Experience

Before I went to Australia, I asked a close friend what souvenir I should get back, because I had no idea what to bring back to that friend, except of Kangaroo meat. The answer I got was postcard! At first I thought it was too cheap as a souvenir but later I realized that if I sent it from Australia, it would be a very meaningful souvenir! (still think it was cheap).

 

I went searching for a post office at Rundle Mall but could not find it. Then I did a silly thing, I asked for direction! Why it was silly? Because I was just standing outside of the post office!

In Australia, instead of the usual post office we had in Malaysia, it was not considered as an office but a shop, so they called it Post Shop!  That was why they were selling many other stuff too!

 

I found a suitable postcard and bought the stamp at the counter from a cute customer service girl.

If you ever experienced summer, you would know that the day would only get dark pretty late (in Adelaide, it started getting dark at 9pm).After managing to scribble something onto the postcard (the person who received this card would have a very hard time reading it because my handwriting was really messy!), I braced the 13ºC temperature to the nearby posting box for mailing. *sneeze sneeze*

Yeah, that friend is really someone pretty special for such urgency. Actually it was evening of 23^rd December, so if I delayed one day, the postcard would take a longer time to reach Malaysia because of Christmas Holidays.

There went my posting!

It turned out that the postcard only arrived here yesterday (7^th January 2009), 2 weeks after my trip! As long as my special friend was happy to receive it, then it was all worth it! Still think it was cheap though. :p