清代邮政,在国家邮局设立之前的19年间(1878—1896年),为海关邮政时期。这期间,邮政由海关税务司署兼办。上海自开放为通商口岸之后,通商各国在北京设立公使馆。各使馆为了本国侨民通信的便利,不顾我国的主权,擅自在通商各埠设立邮局,办理通邮事务。于是所谓的“客邮”和工部书信馆便应时而起。及至1861年,即清咸丰11年开始,这些往来的信件,始由清朝总理衙门饬令驿站代寄,而信件的收发,便由海关附设邮务办事处办理。海关又以冬季北洋封港,邮件不能由轮船输送,因而在上海、镇江、靖江等地设立寄信局,继在天津及沿海口岸添设分局。当时之规模,犹未脱旧时驿递制度之格局。 The Qing Dynasty postal, 19 years before the establishment of the State Post Office (1878-1896), for the postal period of customs. During this period, the postal service is also handled by the Customs Revenue Department. Since the opening of Shanghai as a trading port, all the countries of commerce and trade established their own embassy in Beijing. In order to facilitate the communication among their nationals, the embassies disregarded the sovereignty of our country and set up post offices in the ports of commerce without permission to handle postal matters. So-called “passenger mail” and the Department of Letters Museum should be from time to time. By 1861, only 11 years after the founding of Xianfeng, these letters of correspondence were sent to the post of the Qing government by the Yamen, and the sending and receiving of letters were handled by the customs post office. In addition, the customs closed the harbor with the Northern Territory in winter and the mail could not be transported by steamer. Therefore, it set up a mail bureau in Shanghai, Zhenjiang and Jingjiang, and then set up branch offices in Tianjin and its coastal ports. At that time the scale, still not off the old system when the delivery system pattern.