China post

[Steve and Aiwen]

When everyone talks about picking up the visa at China post, are they talking about the Chinese post office near the Consulate, or an office in the Consulate building, or the Consulate itself? You have to take a number?

 

Can someone clarify this for me?

 

Steve

[LeeFisher3]

When everyone talks about picking up the visa at China post, are they talking about the Chinese post office near the Consulate, or an office in the Consulate building, or the Consulate itself? You have to take a number?

 

Can someone clarify this for me?

 

Steve

The China Post is their version of a post office. When you complete the interview receiving a pink slip you stop by a booth at the consulate and complete an EMS mailing label for your visa packet to be deliverer, EMS is China's version of Fed Ex. This is the only option offered for picking up the visa as of a couple of years back.

 

The specific location for this pickup is the secure location within a bank not far from the consulate. When you enter the building to pickup the visa packet there is a machine where you push a button to get the ticket for your place in line. People are called in to the window for visa pickup by number.

 

When it is your turn, you proceed to the window and present your ID, they will then get your visa packet out and have the beneficiary sign for it.

 

There is also the ability to have it delivered to your home address if you live within Guangdong Province, but most choose to pick their visa up in person.

 

There are many China Post locations but only one specific one is used for the pickup of visa packets in GZ.

[Randy W]

 

. . . complete an EMS mailing label for your visa packet to be deliverer, EMS is China's version of Fed Ex. . . .

 

 

Express Mail Service (EMS)

 

Express Mail Service (EMS) is an international express postal service offered by postal-administration members of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) which created the EMS Cooperative in 1998 within the framework of the UPU, a specialized agency of the United Nations, to promote the harmonization and development of postal services worldwide. Currently EMS is offered by 138 of the 191 UPU member countries' postal authorities[1] and an integral part of their normal postal services. Seven additional countries have arrangements to deliver EMS items. An independent auditor measures the express delivery performance of all international EMS operators and each member is awarded a Gold, Silver, or Bronze certificate depending on their yearly performance. These countries are recorded in the EMS Cooperative's Hall of Fame.[2]

[LGR_WEI]

When everyone talks about picking up the visa at China post, are they talking about the Chinese post office near the Consulate, or an office in the Consulate building, or the Consulate itself? You have to take a number?

 

Can someone clarify this for me?

 

Steve

The China Post is their version of a post office. When you complete the interview receiving a pink slip you stop by a booth at the consulate and complete an EMS mailing label for your visa packet to be deliverer, EMS is China's version of Fed Ex. This is the only option offered for picking up the visa as of a couple of years back.

 

The specific location for this pickup is the secure location within a bank not far from the consulate. When you enter the building to pickup the visa packet there is a machine where you push a button to get the ticket for your place in line. People are called in to the window for visa pickup by number.

 

When it is your turn, you proceed to the window and present your ID, they will then get your visa packet out and have the beneficiary sign for it.

 

There is also the ability to have it delivered to your home address if you live within Guangdong Province, but most choose to pick their visa up in person.

 

There are many China Post locations but only one specific one is used for the pickup of visa packets in GZ.

 

 

Wow, that is a nice post... on post... get it..

 

Well, anyway, I have never seen someone explain the exact proceedure on this. I always thought it was a small post office type place. That however did not seem like a good place for a visa / passport to sit with all the scam printing done in China. I am glad it is going to a bank.

 

>L

[bosco]

When everyone talks about picking up the visa at China post, are they talking about the Chinese post office near the Consulate, or an office in the Consulate building, or the Consulate itself? You have to take a number?

 

Can someone clarify this for me?

 

Steve

The China Post is their version of a post office. When you complete the interview receiving a pink slip you stop by a booth at the consulate and complete an EMS mailing label for your visa packet to be deliverer, EMS is China's version of Fed Ex. This is the only option offered for picking up the visa as of a couple of years back.

 

The specific location for this pickup is the secure location within a bank not far from the consulate. When you enter the building to pickup the visa packet there is a machine where you push a button to get the ticket for your place in line. People are called in to the window for visa pickup by number.

 

When it is your turn, you proceed to the window and present your ID, they will then get your visa packet out and have the beneficiary sign for it.

 

There is also the ability to have it delivered to your home address if you live within Guangdong Province, but most choose to pick their visa up in person.

 

There are many China Post locations but only one specific one is used for the pickup of visa packets in GZ.

 

 

Not quite what we experienced last April.....

 

China Post is 5 or 6 blocks from the Consulate. When entering the post office (not a bank), to the far right is a side room where the visa packets are handed over. We just walked up to a table (racks of sorted packet envelopes were behind this table and off to the right) and gave our name. They pulled the packet and handed it to us.

[LeeFisher3]

When everyone talks about picking up the visa at China post, are they talking about the Chinese post office near the Consulate, or an office in the Consulate building, or the Consulate itself? You have to take a number?

 

Can someone clarify this for me?

 

Steve

The China Post is their version of a post office. When you complete the interview receiving a pink slip you stop by a booth at the consulate and complete an EMS mailing label for your visa packet to be deliverer, EMS is China's version of Fed Ex. This is the only option offered for picking up the visa as of a couple of years back.

 

The specific location for this pickup is the secure location within a bank not far from the consulate. When you enter the building to pickup the visa packet there is a machine where you push a button to get the ticket for your place in line. People are called in to the window for visa pickup by number.

 

When it is your turn, you proceed to the window and present your ID, they will then get your visa packet out and have the beneficiary sign for it.

 

There is also the ability to have it delivered to your home address if you live within Guangdong Province, but most choose to pick their visa up in person.

 

There are many China Post locations but only one specific one is used for the pickup of visa packets in GZ.

 

 

Not quite what we experienced last April.....

 

China Post is 5 or 6 blocks from the Consulate. When entering the post office (not a bank), to the far right is a side room where the visa packets are handed over. We just walked up to a table (racks of sorted packet envelopes were behind this table and off to the right) and gave our name. They pulled the packet and handed it to us.

Same place, but they didn't provide anything until they verified Identification.

[bosco]

When everyone talks about picking up the visa at China post, are they talking about the Chinese post office near the Consulate, or an office in the Consulate building, or the Consulate itself? You have to take a number?

 

Can someone clarify this for me?

 

Steve

The China Post is their version of a post office. When you complete the interview receiving a pink slip you stop by a booth at the consulate and complete an EMS mailing label for your visa packet to be deliverer, EMS is China's version of Fed Ex. This is the only option offered for picking up the visa as of a couple of years back.

 

The specific location for this pickup is the secure location within a bank not far from the consulate. When you enter the building to pickup the visa packet there is a machine where you push a button to get the ticket for your place in line. People are called in to the window for visa pickup by number.

 

When it is your turn, you proceed to the window and present your ID, they will then get your visa packet out and have the beneficiary sign for it.

 

There is also the ability to have it delivered to your home address if you live within Guangdong Province, but most choose to pick their visa up in person.

 

There are many China Post locations but only one specific one is used for the pickup of visa packets in GZ.

 

 

Not quite what we experienced last April.....

 

China Post is 5 or 6 blocks from the Consulate. When entering the post office (not a bank), to the far right is a side room where the visa packets are handed over. We just walked up to a table (racks of sorted packet envelopes were behind this table and off to the right) and gave our name. They pulled the packet and handed it to us.

Same place, but they didn't provide anything until they verified Identification.

 

I didn't feel it was necessary to specify the obvious.

[LGR_WEI]

When everyone talks about picking up the visa at China post, are they talking about the Chinese post office near the Consulate, or an office in the Consulate building, or the Consulate itself? You have to take a number?

 

Can someone clarify this for me?

 

Steve

The China Post is their version of a post office. When you complete the interview receiving a pink slip you stop by a booth at the consulate and complete an EMS mailing label for your visa packet to be deliverer, EMS is China's version of Fed Ex. This is the only option offered for picking up the visa as of a couple of years back.

 

The specific location for this pickup is the secure location within a bank not far from the consulate. When you enter the building to pickup the visa packet there is a machine where you push a button to get the ticket for your place in line. People are called in to the window for visa pickup by number.

 

When it is your turn, you proceed to the window and present your ID, they will then get your visa packet out and have the beneficiary sign for it.

 

There is also the ability to have it delivered to your home address if you live within Guangdong Province, but most choose to pick their visa up in person.

 

There are many China Post locations but only one specific one is used for the pickup of visa packets in GZ.

 

 

Not quite what we experienced last April.....

 

China Post is 5 or 6 blocks from the Consulate. When entering the post office (not a bank), to the far right is a side room where the visa packets are handed over. We just walked up to a table (racks of sorted packet envelopes were behind this table and off to the right) and gave our name. They pulled the packet and handed it to us.

 

Oh great... rows of packets in plain view of people walking in.. that sounds real secure. What did they do, change locations from the bank setting to the post office setting ?

 

>L

[bosco]

When everyone talks about picking up the visa at China post, are they talking about the Chinese post office near the Consulate, or an office in the Consulate building, or the Consulate itself? You have to take a number?

 

Can someone clarify this for me?

 

Steve

The China Post is their version of a post office. When you complete the interview receiving a pink slip you stop by a booth at the consulate and complete an EMS mailing label for your visa packet to be deliverer, EMS is China's version of Fed Ex. This is the only option offered for picking up the visa as of a couple of years back.

 

The specific location for this pickup is the secure location within a bank not far from the consulate. When you enter the building to pickup the visa packet there is a machine where you push a button to get the ticket for your place in line. People are called in to the window for visa pickup by number.

 

When it is your turn, you proceed to the window and present your ID, they will then get your visa packet out and have the beneficiary sign for it.

 

There is also the ability to have it delivered to your home address if you live within Guangdong Province, but most choose to pick their visa up in person.

 

There are many China Post locations but only one specific one is used for the pickup of visa packets in GZ.

 

 

Not quite what we experienced last April.....

 

China Post is 5 or 6 blocks from the Consulate. When entering the post office (not a bank), to the far right is a side room where the visa packets are handed over. We just walked up to a table (racks of sorted packet envelopes were behind this table and off to the right) and gave our name. They pulled the packet and handed it to us.

 

Oh great... rows of packets in plain view of people walking in.. that sounds real secure. What did they do, change locations from the bank setting to the post office setting ?

 

>L

 

They're behind a big table and there is a security guard there. Stop being paranoid.

[dnoblett]

When we were in Guangzhou this past Feb for the interview, we paid china post at a counter set up in th hallway on the 5th floor outside the consulate for the visa to be mailed to the nearby post office and they gave us a map indicating where the office is. We got confused by the map, so hailed a cab, and the driver took us to the office.

[bosco]

When we were in Guangzhou this past Feb for the interview, we paid china post at a counter set up in th hallway on the 5th floor outside the consulate for the visa to be mailed to the nearby post office and they gave us a map indicating where the office is. We got confused by the map, so hailed a cab, and the driver took us to the office.

 

Yeah that map definitely has room for improvement.

Edited August 13, 2007 by Ling-Curt (see edit history)

[mikepellicore]

The China Post Office, is about a mile away from the Consulate. The EMS Parcel Pick-up (window or desk) is to the rightwhen you walk in to the building, it does look like a bank setting, I have been to the China Post to send packages and letters before, and it was similar, although not quite so large. We called at 9am and they told us the package was ready, so we had breakfast and walked, arriving about 10am. There was no line, just 1 person infront of us, checking their package. Yizhen was asked for her identification and was handed the package and like any good Chinese woman she also checked out the package thoroughly!

Mike & Zhen

 

we couldn't understand the map, so we called Mr. Yang! he came to our aid again!

[TootTaLu]

When everyone talks about picking up the visa at China post, are they talking about the Chinese post office near the Consulate, or an office in the Consulate building, or the Consulate itself? You have to take a number?

 

Can someone clarify this for me?

 

Steve

We went to the US Consulate and my fiance got her "pink slip",and was also given a map to a Post Office near the US Consulate at a spicific time and date.

 

When my fiance arrived to the Post Office,she received her Passport with the visa inside.

MANY PEOPLE at the post office that day did NOT receive their visas,even though they had their "pink slip".

 

When we received the "pink slip" from the US Consulate,my fiance and I were quite aware that there was still a big chance we would not get the visa at the post office.

 

 

Its not over until they actually hand you that visa.

[IllinoisDave]

There is also the ability to have it delivered to your home address if you live within Guangdong Province, but most choose to pick their visa up in person.

 

What's the consensus among members as far as using this option?

My SO lives in Shenzhen. Is it that much faster to just have it mailed to the normal place in GUZ or does it make sense to have it mailed to her in Shenzhen? Especially if we end up not staying overnight in GUZ because of the Canton Fair or other issues.

[chilton747]

IMHO the less the visa travels, the best.