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Near the Gaomei Wetlands in Taichung’s Qingshui District there’s a traditional Chinese medicine shop that’s half-a-century old. But the strange thing about it is it also doubles as a post office. They sell stamps, envelopes, and more. They also take registered mail and postmark letters. A husband-and-wife team run the entire operation. It all happened 20 years ago, when the general store next door closed down and the post office asked the pharmacy to take over.

You heard that right. Your eyes also don’t deceive you. This shop sells traditional Chinese medicine, but this customer is here to send a letter.

What kind of a pharmacy is this?

Customer
There are some older ladies, elderly people here by the coastline who need to send mail. So offering this service is convenient for them.

How did this pharmacy-slash-post office come to be?

Tsai Ming-sung
Owner
I suspect there aren’t many traditional medicine shops that double as post offices in Taiwan. We’re probably the only one that offers these services. Our location is convenient for the people who live in the neighborhood.

The shop has operated in Taichung’s Qingshui District near the Gaomei Wetlands for 50 years. Twenty years ago, the general store next door shut down. The post office asked the medicine shop to take over offering postal services. That’s how this strange scene came to be of one owner putting together medicine while another postmarks letters.

Lee Yi-chen
Owner
The letter carrier comes at noon. We have to at least wait for them to come and get the mail before we can leave. Sometimes people send registered or double-registered mail and are in a hurry. We have to take special care with these ones. We can’t make them late. That wouldn’t be OK.

The owners can’t leave the shop until the mail carrier comes. They strive to serve their neighbors who live far off near the shore, whether it’s medicine or mail services that they need.

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