the postal museum has a large lobby area where stamp collectors can purchase most of the newer issue Taiwan stamps (Chunghwa Post) from the last several years or more. They also sell stamp collecting souvenirs, specialty postal booklets and albums, and much more.

The postal museum is located on a total of 4 floors at this location and there is exhibits on Taiwan's postal history, modern postal services, philately (stamp collecting) and much more. There are some very rare and interesting stamps on display in the museum!

I try to go back every few years to see the changes of items on display in the museum.

They did ask me NOT to take photos inside the museum, only in the lobby area.

The museum is admittedly very outdated. While some recent Taiwanese stamps are on display, the international collection has barely been updated since the mid-90s. The interactive displays for kids all look like they were built in the 80s. The sorting machines on display is probably a model that has been obsoleted for a few decades.

But then, the admission is practically free (NTD$5, so like 15 cents USD). I am a history buff and was a fairly serious stamp collector growing up, so the historical information about postal process and the rather outdated international collection were of great interest for me (I stopped collecting when I entered university in the late 90s, so the outdated'ness works to my favour). The staff (men and women mostly of retirement age) were exceptionally friendly and very keen to engage visitors (though in their rather leisurely pace).

Outdated, disorganized, eclectic, it is all that. But the nostalgia factor won me over. Perhaps this museum is a symbol of how the postal system is losing its relevance in our daily life.

Objectively, as much as I personally enjoyed it, I can only give the museum an average rating as a travel attraction. I think a small investment by the postal department to update the museum, perhaps spice it up with some modern interactive terminals, would make this a more interesting place.