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Featured in The Washington Post, Time Magazine, on NPR, the BBC, Travel and Leisure, and Australian Broadcasting; this blog highlights interesting post offices and stories from across the United States.

09/08/2026

Twelve people in line at the post office, grizzled guy walks in, looks at us, turns right around while saying the most sarcastic “merry Christmas” I’ve ever heard. Comedic perfection.

Just to be clear, there have not been stamps for 250 years. The first U.S. postage stamps were issued in 1847.[Update: T...
09/07/2026

Just to be clear, there have not been stamps for 250 years. The first U.S. postage stamps were issued in 1847.

[Update: Turns out the link text was kind of ambiguous and I read it the wrong way. See comments for details. Learn from my mistake 😆]

This is part of my shotglass / equivalent collection. Today I take a shot from it in honor of Kathy Gratzon, who passed ...
09/07/2026

This is part of my shotglass / equivalent collection. Today I take a shot from it in honor of Kathy Gratzon, who passed away two years ago today. In 2012 I called the Arkansas District to let them know that I was going to be visiting a slew of Arkansas post offices as part of my cross-country road trip, and I’d be collecting postmarks along the way. Kathy said, “I know [about] you!” and promptly sent an email out to every post office in the state ensuring that they knew about postmark hand-back service, so I’d have no difficulty getting postmarks from any office I visited. I did not have any difficulties, even from offices that had previously denied my requests via mail! I finally met Kathy in 2019, once she’d retired. I had driven from New York to Piggott, Arkansas for the First Day ceremony for the Post Office Murals stamps, and barreled through all the POs in the Little Rock area on the way. She was such a sweetheart. You are missed, Kathy.

Saw a couple of contractors installing a brand new green relay box today! Replaced a rusting one. This one was just manu...
08/31/2026

Saw a couple of contractors installing a brand new green relay box today! Replaced a rusting one. This one was just manufactured, per the info stamped into the back.

Time for another outgoing parcel plastered with stamps on all four sides
08/29/2026

Time for another outgoing parcel plastered with stamps on all four sides

What a shame USPS sold this gorgeous building in downtown Annapolis roughly ten years ago to relocate to some generic re...
08/27/2026

What a shame USPS sold this gorgeous building in downtown Annapolis roughly ten years ago to relocate to some generic retail space unfitting of this history.

[Correct response to clue at end.] This Final Jeopardy clue from James Holzhauer's 2019 run rubs me the wrong way. Alex ...
08/23/2026

[Correct response to clue at end.] This Final Jeopardy clue from James Holzhauer's 2019 run rubs me the wrong way. Alex even read it as "the United States Postal Service," but USPS didn't exist as such until 1971. I would just say "the Post Office Department" or even "the U.S. Post Office." As a reminder, the Post Office Department was an actual Cabinet-level government department.
[Correct response: "What is raising the flag on Iwo Jima?"

The cat is pretty relaxed
08/22/2026

The cat is pretty relaxed

Local post office was very patient with my flats again
08/17/2026

Local post office was very patient with my flats again

Oh cool, USPS made a map of the limited-time semiquincentennial collection boxes: https://www.usps.com/usa250/Collection...
08/04/2026

Oh cool, USPS made a map of the limited-time semiquincentennial collection boxes:https://www.usps.com/usa250/Collection_Box_Map.pdf

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