Desert post office serves tree adopters from around the world

A post office in the heart of the Tengger Desert, China's fourth-largest desert, has sent more than 20,000 postcards around the world in the past two years.

Since it opened to the public at the end of 2021, staff members at the desert post office in Alshaa League, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, have also planted around 10,000 oleaster trees, with more than 7,000 having been adopted by people from across the country, carrying countless heartwarming stories of their adopters.

The manager of the post office, a woman surnamed Gao, said that the post office is a "store that relieves worries". It is a lonely yet warm place in the vast and uninhabited desert, a "tree hole" that absorbs various emotions and a station for sending blessings and hopes.