Measures of Shanghai Municipality for the Administration of Postal Facilities

(Promulgated by Decree No. 53 of Shanghai Municipal People's Government on October 28, 2005; amended in accordance with Decree No. 24 of Shanghai Municipal People's Government on December 29, 2025)

Article 1 (Purpose and Basis)

With a view to strengthening the construction and management of postal facilities, these Measures are formulated according to the Law of the People's Republic of China on Postal Service, the Rules for the Implementation of Law of the People's Republic of China on Postal Service, the Measures of Shanghai Municipality for the Implementation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Postal Service, and the provisions of relevant laws and regulations, and in the light of the actual circumstances of this Municipality.

Article 2 (Definition of Relevant Terms)

Postal facilities mentioned in these Measures refer to postal business premises, mail processing premises, pillar box (letter box), postal newspaper and magazine kiosk, letter and newspaper box, and other facilities used for providing postal services.

Article 3 (Scope of Application)

These Measures shall apply to the planning, construction and relevant management activities of postal facilities in the administrative areas of this Municipality.

Article 4 (Competent Administrative Departments)

Shanghai Municipal Postal Administration (hereinafter referred to as the municipal postal administration) is the competent administrative department of postal facilities and is responsible for the supervision and management of postal facilities in this Municipality.

The departments of planning and natural resources, housing and urban-rural development management, transport, and housing management shall, according to their respective lawful functions and duties, and the provisions of these Measures, do a good job relevant to the management of postal facilities.

Article 5 (Planning Formulation)

The municipal postal administration shall, jointly with the municipal bureau of planning and natural resources, organize to formulate the special plan for postal facilities including postal business premises and mail processing premises, and the relevant contents shall be incorporated into the corresponding territorial spatial planning in accordance with the law.

Article 6 (Setup Standards)

The setup of postal facilities shall be in accordance with the standards prescribed by the State.

The design and construction of postal facilities shall measure up to relevant standards.

Article 7 (Freestanding Postal Facilities)

Postal enterprises shall, according to the requirements of the special plan for postal facilities and the regulatory detailed plan, construct stand-alone postal business premises and mail processing premises, and shall install pillar box (letter box) as required.

Where the land used for the construction of postal business premises and mail processing premises falls within the state's catalogue of allocated land, it shall be allocated by the municipal or district people's governments in accordance with the law.

Article 8 (Ancillary Postal Facilities)

In case that it is necessary to construct the postal business premises or mail processing premises as the supporting facility for a construction project according to the regulatory detailed plan, the development unit shall specify its area and location in the construction design scheme.

If the area of such ancillary postal business premises and mail processing premises falls within the applicable area standard, its supply price shall be determined according to the principle of supporting and ensuring universal postal services, and shall not exceed the corresponding comprehensive cost price.

Article 9 (The Routine Use and Maintenance of Postal Facilities)

Postal enterprises shall establish and perfect a set of system concerning the use, maintenance and management of postal facilities to guarantee their regular use.

Postal enterprises shall carry out routine maintenance of the postal facilities that they have installed. House owners shall be responsible for the maintenance of the letter and newspaper box, or they may entrust the property service company with the routine maintenance.

Article 10 (Compensation and Resettlement for Expropriation)

In case that the postal business premises or mail processing premises are expropriated and such premises are required to be reset in that area by the regulatory detailed plan, the expropriation unit shall provide the premises for the postal business premises or mail processing premises by means of reconstruction or exchange with property right of houses in that area. If it is not required by the regulatory detailed plan to be reset in that area, the postal enterprise may choose either the method of exchange of house property rights or monetary compensation.

Article 11 (Transitional Resettlement)

Where the postal business premises or mail processing premises are provided by means of reconstruction or exchange with property right of houses in accordance with the provisions of Article 10 of these Measures, the expropriation unit shall provide temporary premises to ensure the universal postal services before the delivery of the premises; if the expropriation unit is incapable of providing such premises, the postal enterprise may make its own transitional arrangements, provided that the expropriation unit shall pay temporary resettlement compensation.

Article 12 (Forbidden Acts)

No units or individual persons shall be allowed to destroy, occupy postal facilities, or obstruct their regular use, or make bold to change their property of use.

Article 13 (Supervision)

The municipal postal administration shall establish a system for complaint or public report, and lose no time in handling the complaints or reports made by units or individual persons. In case of unlawful acts, they shall be stopped in time and handled according to law.

Article 14 (Legal Liability)

Any act in violation of the provisions of these Measures shall be handled in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws, regulations and rules.

Article 15 (Effective Date)

These Measures shall be effective as of December 1, 2005.