Post Office

Any last traces of Post Offices?  Or have they all gone?

Is it really that bad in the Netherlands, Ruud?

Here I have five post offices within 4km (though you need to swim a river to reach number 3)

Our post orifices in Cheshire are dwindling thick and fast.  Only one tiny corner shop post counter near me.  The main one in town moved to smaller premises!   Next - a shed?    

Post offices are open in Greece...

( banks are closed  :-)

I like small town, little tiny post offices like this one in Eland, Wisconsin

This one, built in 1915, in the small city of Merrill, Wisconsin has this pretty sky light

Little PO in Wittenburg, Wisconsin

canadas first postage stamp 1851.

MORE mailart!

Carl,I love your stamps below.  This post office was really old looking in a very small

town in southern New Mexico.  Bright Late afternoon sun made for a shady photo.

debra, great photo>>>>>>

MAILaert/////////

This is the second time in a few weeks that a posted non machinable postcard has come back to me instead of going to the intended recipient.  I posted it inside the post office where it is supposed to go in a NON Machinable pile, for which I pay an extra 15 cents.  I’m not sure what is happening.  Is my mail too confusing with other stamps and such embellishments?  Any thoughts/suggestions/ideas?  I plan to take it back down to my same p.o. where I regularly post from.

debra, yes mail-art can be really confusing for postal workers.

but i just put it down to incompetence, over-paid under-worked,

its the same in canada. tell the supervisor at that office.

It's a nice looking piece Debra. Good luck. Keep us posted as to the solution to the problem.

Thanks for sharing the New Mexico Post Office. It's got character!

My regular downtown post office.  Check out the large P.O. Boxes at the bottom of the wall.  

All Original - built in the early 1900’s.

stamp sheet from borderline grafix, we need more mail-art!

Not a post office but an e trembly embellished post box in Rethymnon, Crete. Greece.  

VINTAGE post office toy set........

OMG!  The whole set.  Amazing.  I've never seen one on eBay or anywhere else.  Usually the single stamps or a block of 4 appear once in awhile for a hefty price (several dollars per tiny stamp).

postage stamps from...........

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/micronation-stamps?utm_source...

Royal Post in 1927...to Downton Abbey?

VIRUS///////////

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/post-office-coronavirus/

new york city post office 1912.

Remember to thank the postal workers during this virus crisis:

From the tiny town of Albion, in southern Idaho, not far from the Utah border

stamps>>>>>>>>

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/15/snag-some-of-these-gorgeous-ru.html

did u know??????

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/629891/san-pedro-california-vol...

Fascinating, carl.  Thanks for the posting.

UPDATE/////////

https://usmailnotforsale.org/

Thanks for the posting.

online.........

https://www.postofficefans.com/evanston-illinois-post-office/

Post office in Meteghan, Nova Scotia Canada.  Quaint and top notch service.  

USPS/21

https://boingboing.net/2021/07/15/usps-issues-stamps-with-secret-me...

beware the usps>>>>>>

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/28/1041304836/slower-mail-delivery-high...

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.

Thank you Ilya.  Very interesting to see life in Russia.

stamp*

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-post-reveals-...

new stamps>>>>>>

https://hyperallergic.com/693616/landscapes-by-ojibwe-painter-georg...

discarded mail-boxes,japan.

vintage stamp.

new canadian stamp.

los angeles........

STRIKE at canada post,

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