Mail delivery service is performed from Monday to Friday, only express delivery, viz. Speedpost and Local CourierPost services, will be available on Saturday. No mail delivery services will be provided on Sunday and public holidays unless it is so announced. All mail will be delivered once except those otherwise stated. For mail items requiring signature for receipt or those with sizes which cannot fit through letter boxes, postmen will attempt door delivery. In case of unsuccessful door delivery, postmen will issue mail collection notification cards with which the recipients collect the mail from designated post offices.

Mail item is delivered according to the address indicated (i.e. delivery to the address) but not to the designated addressee as given on the mail item. Hongkong Post only delivers mail items with complete and deliverable addresses. Apart from complete addresses of recipients, senders should also indicate their return addresses in case of unsuccessful delivery. Local addresses should include the following information (where applicable) :

Order of local mail address should be name of addressee, flat/room and floor number, building name, building number, street name, district and region

Please refer to the link below for details on mailing address format:

Make good use of “Mailing Address Format Finder” and include sender’s address for proper delivery

For houses in villages, Hongkong Post would consider providing door delivery service only when the houses are allocated with official building numbers by the Rating and Valuation Department (RVD) Note 1. For owners or occupants of houses who wish to apply for building numbers, please download the application form the RVD website at www.rvd.gov.hk and send the completed form, together with the required documents, to the RVD.

All mail items are delivered according to the addresses indicated. Mail items bearing incorrect or undeliverable addresses Note 2 will be returned to senders. If such items bear no senders’ addresses, disposal will be arranged according to our established procedures. We will not contact the recipients or senders even if telephone numbers are present on the mail items Note 3.

Therefore, senders are strongly advised to ensure the correctness and completeness of both recipients’ and senders’ addresses before posting.

Note 1: For houses in villages with building numbers allocated, the availability of door delivery service is still subject to the accessibility of such houses and whether it is reasonably convenient for our Postmen to carry out their duties. For houses in villages without official building numbers allocated by the RVD, we suggest these villages to install residents’ nested letter boxes for receiving ordinary mail.

Note 2: Undeliverable addresses refer to those without the information that an address should include, such as name of the street, building number, name of the building, flat/room and floor numbers, and including only the lot number is an example under this category.

Note 3: Except for Speedpost, Local CourierPost items, Local and Inward Registered mail, e-Express+ and Insured Parcel.