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China opens first 'space post office'

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 12:40 AM PDT

China space office

In this era of Facebook, email, Twitter and other social media, getting a postcard from someone's travels has a certain appeal.

China's mail service looks to be taking that tourist postcard to a whole new level.

To celebrate Thursday's docking of the Shenzhou-8 unmanned spacecraft with space lab module Tiangong-1, China's post authority has opened a new branch office outside the country and out of this world -- 343 kilometers above the Earth, to be exact.

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