Over seven years, more than 2,000 postal workers ran the "life-and-death mail routes" through enemy blockhouses and blockade lines; 468 postal fighters died on those routes, the youngest aged 15, many unnamed .
The Wartime Post 1942
On 7 February 1942, in the hardest years of the resistance, the CPC Shandong bureau and the Shandong wartime government established the Shandong Wartime Post General Bureau in Shuangquan Yuzi village, Mashichi township, Yinan county, in the Yimeng mountains — a wartime communications organisation combining intra-party transport, party-newspaper distribution and postal service.
