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Coronavirus: Hong Kong post offices to reopen with shortened working hours, thousands of parcels with masks backed up, union says
- More than 18,000 items have accumulated at city’s air mail centre since holiday, with nearly a third believed to contain masks, union chief says
- Thousands queue up across Hong Kong as businesses, politicians pass out free masks
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Letter, parcels and, crucially, thousands of packages of surgical masks that have piled up over the past week will soon be back on the move with the resumption of limited postal services on Monday.
As thousands of Hongkongers queued up across the city on Saturday in hopes of scoring free masks amid an ongoing shortage, officials confirmed post offices will be reopening, albeit with a truncated delivery schedule and shortened hours.
Post offices will be open between 11am and 3pm on weekdays, and between 9.30am and 1pm on Saturday, something likely to create longer queues and waiting times at service counters, it was announced.
Mail will be delivered and collected from posting boxes on alternate days, while the post office’s Speedpost service, which resumed on Wednesday, will continue a Monday through Saturday schedule.
General mail delivery and post office counter services were suspended following the Lunar New Year holiday amid growing worries over the coronavirus outbreak.
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