SHOW ME YOUR POST OFFICE

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Comment by Maxima Strange on September 22, 2022 at 3:54pm

Helene, Again, I’m sorry to hear the postal service is deteriorating. It makes me sad. Mail has always been very important to me. That is a huge building. 

Comment by Hélène LAGACHE on September 22, 2022 at 3:44pm

Comment by Hélène LAGACHE on September 22, 2022 at 3:39pm

It is my post office. I know it is impressive. I live in the hyper center of Bordeaux (256,045 inhabitants). This large building is in fact the General Directorate of the Post of Bordeaux, with administrative offices, business services, premises for postal workers. The post office with stamps, machines, etc... is on the ground floor.
There are post offices in every district of Bordeaux, and mailboxes everywhere.
In France, the post office has been half privatized. There is a lot of turnover and the service is deteriorating.
I have had a lot of problems recently (undelivered newspapers, letters to neighbors, etc.). Consumers in France complain a lot about the post office.
In the countryside many small offices close.

Comment by Maxima Strange on September 22, 2022 at 7:28am

Oh no, Mail Art Martha, that’s terrible! Thankfully I haven’t had any problems ordering stamps from USPS. The world is changing, not always for the best. 

Comment by Mail Art Martha on September 22, 2022 at 6:50am

So amazing! Serendipity at its best. I had just wrote the following when I found an invitation to join this group.

This is what I wrote:

Mail Art for ever? I wish! I am so afraid our postal services (I live in England), misnomed 'Royal' mail but really a business, is going to stop delivering letters. Prices go up and up since our right wing government sold it , postboxes are disappearing and now when I tried to buy stamps by post their website is down and have been so for many weeks. If I go to the local post office, which moved from a dedicated building to the back of a shop, I cannot buy all I need because they haven't so many!!!

I will have to post from different places but they are fast disappearing.

Comment by Maxima Strange on September 22, 2022 at 5:40am

So now we know where the Mail Art police reside! 

Comment by Monster A GoGo on September 22, 2022 at 5:32am

This is my local post office, which I can actually SEE from the back of my house. However, this is the same post office that is home to the Mail Art Police--the ones who have given me a bad time about my mail art. SO... I almost never visit it other than to drop things off (postcards, etc.) in the drop box (pictured) outside. All of my mail art (including a few pieces hopefully heading out tomorrow) I drop in random mail boxes OFF of the island. Even the the entries for your Goth Emporium projects have been mailed from a different post office, at the next town north. 

Comment by Maxima Strange on September 22, 2022 at 1:46am

Thank you, Marcia. I look forward to seeing your photos. 

Comment by Marcia Rosenberger on September 22, 2022 at 1:26am

Maxima, it’s a great idea to share photos of our post office. The old and small buildings are my favorites too. Soon I'll go to my p.o. and I'll share it with you.

Mark, your P.O. it's absolutly gorgeous.

Carien, very sad... so impersonal.

Comment by Maxima Strange on September 22, 2022 at 12:39am

Eight miles from me is this little post office in Helena. 

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