Banqiao Eki Stamp

Like JR in Japan, MRT in Taiwan also has souvenir eki stamps at select train stations.

Hilton Taipei Sinban is just a short walk from the  Banqiao Station. It's only a short 15-minute train ride from Taipei Main Station to Banqiao Station.

The new Hilton Taipei in Banqiao opened in 2018, 15 years after the original Hilton Taipei closed in 2003. The former Hilton Taipei was located directly across from the Taipei Main Station.

The new Hilton in Banqiao is also near the train station but it's about a 10-minute walk.

So my brief visit to the Hilton reception netted me a couple of newly minted hotel envelopes. I affixed the 15 NTD worth of postage for airmail rate back home to the US. I walked the envelopes back to the Banqiao station and added the station souvenir stamp before dropping them off in the mailbox just outside the station post office.

One of the covers arrived with double franking over the pair of stamps: a round postmark in Banqiao and a second machine cancel in San Francisco on October 19, 2018. The Banqiao postmark date is difficult to decipher but it is likely October 15, the same day as the envelope was dropped off in the mailbox.

This makes the fourth Hilton Hotel cover that made it back. In fact, I've been posting two from each hotel just in case one goes missing. So far it's 8 for 8.

P.S. The original Hilton Taipei became Caesar Park Hotel in 2003 and the new Hilton Taipei Banqiao property is also developed by the same Caesar Park Hotel.  As for the Hilton cover series, it is part of my Hilton Centennial philatelic celebration.