You can watch a whole mini-documentary about the post box in Susami on Youtube-we were amazed to learn that there had been over 38,000 special waterproof postcards sent from this underwater post box at the time it was filmed in 2018. Find out This postbox is located 10 metres below the surface of the water in Susami Bay, Japan. In the year 2002, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized this 10-meters-deep, underwater, red postbox in Susami Bay, Japan. Yes, in Susami Bay you can post your mail in a postbox which is placed 10 meters deep off of the coast. This story currently has no contributors. There’s one in the Malaysian island of Mataking, another one in the Jemeluk Bay Underwater Gallery in Indonesia, and two “dry” ones: an underwater observatory in the US Virgin Islands and the Risør Underwater Post Office in Norway. To date, almost 38,000 letters have been sent from under the sea. I even did some more poking around, and it turns out there are a few other underwater post boxes. It’s actually in the Guinness Book of World Records because it’s the deepest post box in the world, and they have a certificate to prove it! The boxes are made of cast-iron, so there are actually two used in rotation, so they can be cleaned and repainted. You need diving gear to even reach the post box, because it’s 10 metres below the surface. Waterproof postcards are sold in the dive shop, and you have to write your message using waterproof oil-based markers, so the message won’t wash off. It’s a collaboration between the former postmaster, a man called Toshihiko Matsumoto, and the local diving community. Well, turns out that isn’t quite true! Postcrosser Cindy (aka cindybeaule) let us know about an underwater post box in Susami, Japan, which was put in place in 1999 as part of a fair to promote the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail.
Can’t swim? There’s also a mailbox located on terra firma at the resort that will mail the waterproof postcards.We’ve written before about the Underwater Postoffice in Vanuatu, and we thought at the time it was the only place you could post a letter underwater in the world. The Vanuatu underwater post office is open to snorkelers, scuba divers and anyone who can hold their breath long enough to make a transaction. In the years since its opening, there have been several copycat underwater mailboxes that have opened, including ones in Susami, Japan Risor, Norway and Pulau Layang-Layang, Malaysia, the world's deepest located more than 130 feet underwater, but the one at Vanuatu will go down in history as being the first of its kind. “Swimming to the post office is a great way to see the local sea life,” he says. (At one time, the local postal service trained its postal clerks to scuba dive, but over time this additional specialized training became difficult to maintain, which is why the dive masters now pitch in.) The mailbox receives around 1,000 to 1,500 pieces of mails annually, which are collected by the employee of the Yamatani. A a Guinness World Record Holder since 2002, this deepest underwater postbox is located at a depth of 10 meters off its coast. While Timbaci sometimes straps on scuba gear and mans the post office himself, he often taps one of the dive masters at the nearby Hideaway Island Resort and Marine Sanctuary to help out. Susami, is a fishing town in Wakayama Perfecture, Japan with a population of around 5,000 people. Visitors know that the post office is open for business when a flag is flown at the surface. (The post office developed a special metal device that marks each postcard without using ink, which would smear on contact.)Ī post shared by All Day I Dream About Travel. “The number goes up when cruise ships come into port.”Īs a postal manager, it’s Timbaci’s job to ensure that the postcards, which are made of waterproof plastic and embossed with a special stamp, are collected on time at 3 p.m. “Every week hundreds of postcards are dropped off at the underwater post office,” Timbaci tells. Devised over drinks by the local postmaster and a resort owner, it opened in 2003 as the world’s first underwater post office to literally make it possible for vacationers to send postcards back home from under the sea. Located about 160 feet off the coast of Vanuatu, an island nation situated about 1,000 miles east of northern Australia, sits the Vanuatu Post’s underwater post office. The mailbox and converted fiberglass water tank are submerged ten feet beneath the surface of Mele Bay, a body of water that feeds into the South Pacific Ocean. Vira Timbaci’s post office job is similar to that of many postal workers around the world, except for one minor detail: one of the mailboxes he manages is underwater.
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