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Mail Service in Taiwan

Taiwan takes great pride in its efficient postal system, which delivers mail three times daily.

Airmail to or from the United States and Canada takes approximately one to two weeks. For packages, Federal Express, UPS, and DHL all ship to and from Taiwan.

You may want to print address labels with your Taiwanese address in Chinese characters, and send them out with your letters home. Your return correspondence will arrive in Taiwan much sooner if your address is written in characters, but be sure your labels say "Taiwan" in English, or they may never make it past your hometown post office.

You may find that your first visit to a Taiwanese post office is somewhat confusing, but it need not be. The green mailboxes are for domestic mail: local mail goes in the slot on the right and non-local mail goes in the slot on the left. The red mailboxes are for airmail and express mail. You can also pay your telephone, electric, water, and gas bills at the post office as long as you are paying on time.

Temporary Mailing Address

Until you get set up with your address, a very reliable way to receive mail is to have it addressed to you in the following manner:

Your Full Name
Post Restante
GPO
Name of City, Taiwan

The post office in the specified city will hold your mail for a number of weeks until you get there to pick it up.

Foreign Affairs Police Service

Contact one of these stations if you are involved in a traffic accident, have been burglarized, need an exit permit, need to report a missing passport, or need to renew, extend, or change your visa.

Foreign Affairs Police Service, Kaohsiung
258 Chung Cheng 4th Road
(07) 215-4342

Foreign Affairs Police Service, Kaohsiung County
338 Kuan Yuan Road
Feng Shan City
(07) 745-2830

Foreign Affairs Police Service, Keelung
1 Kanghsi Street
Keelung, Taiwan
(02) 424-1991

Foreign Affairs Police Service, Taichung
588 Wenhsin Road, Section 2
Taichung, Taiwan
(04) 327-3875

Foreign Affairs Police Service, Tainan
37 Nan Men Road
(06) 222-9704 or (06) 223-1101, ext. 2120 or 2121

Foreign Affairs Police Service, Tainan County
3 Chung Cheng Road
Hsin Ying City
(06) 635-4531

Foreign Affairs Police Service, Taipei
96 Yenping South Road
Taipei, Taiwan
(02) 381-7475 or (02) 381-8341