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By Sarah Sharkey
Have you ever mailed a postcard or letter to your friends and family back home while on a wild adventure? It is a fun experience to write out a postcard and inform your friend that your vacation is AH-mazing, but you miss them and are looking forward to seeing them when you get home.
Now the experience of posting a postcard can be even more meaningful. By posting your letter or postcard underwater, the recipient will receive a postcard unlike any of the others they have received.
You can post letters underwater at these four locations:
1. Susami, Japan
This postbox was placed here in 1999 and is located about 10 meters below the surface in Susami Bay. Divers have mailed around 32,000 items from this box since 1999.
2. Risor, Norway
The Risor Underwater Post Office is slightly different than your average post office. You can drop your mail in the postbox by the pier, no diving required. The mail is then taken to a completely dry underwater post office and given a special stamp to prove that it made it below the waves,
3. Pulau Layang-Layang, Malaysia
This is the deepest postbox at a depth of 40 meters. Visitors have to dive to this one to mail their postcard souvenirs to family and friends back home.
4. Hideaway Island, Vanuatu
Established in 2003 is only 3 meters below the surface. Visitors to the Hideaway Island Resort can either dive down to post the cards themselves or they can have a staff member post the postcard for them.