Ho Chi Minh City Post Office supports the ranking of this site as a relic

The Director of Ho Chi Minh City Post Office has just signed a document agreeing, supporting and ready to coordinate with the Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City to prepare a dossier to request the ranking of a relic for the Ho Chi Minh City Central Post Office.

Many tourists come to Ho Chi Minh City Post Office to take photos on weekends - Photo: TTD

Mr. Nguyen Nhu Thuan - Director of Ho Chi Minh City Post Office, has just signed a document responding to the Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City regarding the request for coordination and providing opinions on the dossier for ranking the relic of the Ho Chi Minh City Central Post Office building.

The Post Office is ready to cooperate in preparing documents to propose ranking of relics.

According to a document by Mr. Le Hai Hoa - Chief of Office of Ho Chi Minh City Post Office, provided to Tuoi Tre Online - Ho Chi Minh City Post Office is deeply aware that the Ho Chi Minh City Central Post Office (No. 2 Cong Xa Paris, Saigon Ward) is not only a postal transaction office but also a valuable part of the city's heritage.

Being assigned the task of managing, exploiting and preserving this project is an honor, pride and also a responsibility that Ho Chi Minh City Post Office always respects and strives to carry out with the highest spirit.

“The Ho Chi Minh City Post Office fully agrees, supports and is ready to coordinate with the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports in the process of preparing a dossier to propose ranking as a city-level relic (or national-level if qualified), in order to honor the historical architectural value of the project” - excerpt from the document sent to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports.

Over the years, Ho Chi Minh City Post Office has proactively coordinated with relevant departments, agencies and sectors to organize many typical cultural activities such as: Book and Reading Culture Festival, Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Week , and weekly traditional art performances every Saturday... At the same time, it has always paid attention to the maintenance, preservation and preservation of the original architecture, ensuring the preservation of the beauty and value of the project.

Tourists come and go busily at the Ho Chi Minh City Central Post Office - Photo: TTD

Hope to make Ho Chi Minh City Post Office become a regional urban cultural heritage

The current concern of Ho Chi Minh City Post Office is how to preserve the project in accordance with legal regulations while still ensuring proactiveness and flexibility in management, exploitation, and serving the increasingly developing postal, commercial, and tourism functions.

Ho Chi Minh City Post Office hopes that the process of ranking the relic will be an opportunity to work with the authorities to build a long-term strategy, harmonizing conservation and development, to turn the Ho Chi Minh City Post Office building into an urban cultural heritage of Southeast Asia - a place where historical values, architecture and community cultural interaction converge.

The leaders of Ho Chi Minh City Post Office requested the Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City to continue to closely coordinate and provide professional support to build a dossier to rank relics in accordance with the general development orientation; and provide specific instructions on the next steps to ensure proper procedures and compliance with the provisions of the Law on Cultural Heritage.

The Lotus Folk Music and Dance Theatre performs in front of the Post Office on weekends to serve tourists - Photo: NGUYEN THANH VY

During the period before, during and after being recognized as a relic, Ho Chi Minh City Post Office requests the Department of Culture and Sports and related departments and branches to create favorable conditions for Ho Chi Minh City Post Office to carry out business activities according to its business registration license and assigned functions and tasks;

Receive attention, guidance and timely facilitation from relevant departments and branches when the Corporation and Ho Chi Minh City Post Office need to renovate and embellish, especially urgently renovate relics; pay attention to arranging funding for renovating and embellishing work, especially urgently renovating relics from the city budget according to regulations.

According to the plan, by the end of the fourth quarter of 2025, or at the latest in the first quarter of 2026, Ho Chi Minh City Post Office will replace the roof tiles of the building due to the deterioration and leakage affecting the architecture of the building.

According to the Ho Chi Minh City Post Office, the Ho Chi Minh City Central Post Office, which bears the strong imprint of French architecture of the late 19th century and was completed in 1891, is a vivid symbol of the history of formation and development of Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City over the past 100 years.

This building was voted one of the 100 most attractive tourist destinations in the city and was ranked 2nd among the 11 most beautiful post offices in the world by Architectural Digest Magazine (USA).

Back to topic

HOAI PHUONG

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/buu-dien-tp-hcm-ung-ho-viec-xep-hang-di-tich-dia-diem-nay-20251015134727028.htm