SHOW ME YOUR POST OFFICE

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Comment by Maxima Strange on September 22, 2022 at 5:47pm

I love that photo, Predrag. I’ll message you.

Comment by Predrag Petrovic on September 22, 2022 at 5:42pm

There I just uploaded a photo of small Post Office (Пошта)  in Serbia (actually that one is one from which I sometimes send my letters from to whole wide world) If anybody would like to exchange with me, feel free to message me for more details. Ta, cheers.

Comment by Predrag Petrovic on September 22, 2022 at 5:37pm

Comment by Maxima Strange on September 22, 2022 at 4:38pm

Hi Ilya, I did see that group first and investigated it. It wasn’t focused primarily on photos of the post office so I thought I’d make my own group and invite my friends. Thank you for all the wonderful photos. Amazing how big the buildings are. 

Comment by Ilya Semenenko-Basin on September 22, 2022 at 4:04pm

Dear friends, I didn't intend to post pictures of my post office 119048, but Stephen Rife was interested in the view of the house, so I made a decision. Today I will post photos borrowed from the Internet here, and later I will take pictures of the interior.

Russia Post Office 119048 is located in Moscow, at 29 Usacheva Street, Building 9. House 29 occupies an entire block and consists of several separate buildings. This block of 25 hectares was built in 1920-1930s and is called "New houses for Workers on Usachevka". It was built by architects A. I. Meshkov, N. Molokov, N. Shcherbakov, and Galkin and engineers G. A. Maslennikova and V. Volkova. Style: constructivism. "New houses for Workers on Usachevka" refers to one of Moscow's first examples of an integrated development of a large housing estate. The 25-hectare area is built up with single-type four- to five-storey apartment blocks with two- to three-room flats, designed for individual occupancy. In order to compensate for the asceticism of the rationalist architecture, the author of the project emphasised the corners and left the upper stories in the form of a frieze unplastered. The complex consists of symmetrical and closed blocks. In the areas in between there are courtyards with green areas, playgrounds and driveways. At the same time kindergartens and nurseries, a school, a dispensary and a department store were built.

A post office is located in one of the buildings. Here is a picture of the Building 9 from the corner (the entrance to the post office on the left, behind the cars, not very clearly visible in the photo). Photographer: Ksenia Erdes, 2010. This is how the house looks today.

A view of the "New houses for Workers on Usachevka" just after construction is completed. Building 9 is on the right in the distance. Photographer: American photographer Branson DeCou (1892 - 1941), 1931.

Several contemporary photographs of the entrance to the post office at 29 Usacheva Street, Building 9. The house looks very shabby in the photos, but the façade has been repaired and painted this year. The author of the photos is unknown.

Comment by Ilya Semenenko-Basin on September 22, 2022 at 4:00pm

Hello Maxima! Your group duplicates this one:

https://iuoma-network.ning.com/group/postoffice

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. 

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