Highest and Biggest Rip-off Post Office in the World

So our lonely planet mentioned about a post box at Everest Base Camp being the highest in the world. Cool we thought. We'll send some postcards from there.

When we got to base camp we saw the post office.

OK let's try to mail our postcards...

We go up...."Ni hway swor ying wern ma?"

Yes says one Tibetan.

Great, how much to send a post card to Canada? 16 Yuan was the answer! Wha??? Really? The normal rate is 4.50 Yuan International. Almost 4 times more? We decided to forgo the cool postmark and said forget it. Just another cash grab! Sure it's high, sure it's remote. But what a rip off. To send the post cards, we could have stayed a few more night here in Lhasa! Oh well...