Recently utilized post offices

[Sidewinder]

Most of the time I have no quarrel with trees, but look what this tree is doing.

 

This tree is guilty of the charge of Obstruction of (the view of) a post office.

 

(This is part of the reason why I, for the first time in the life of this thread, must post two yes DEUX pics of the same building, so that you may see the word "Ipswich.")

 

I mailed my J Crew payment from there in September of 2021.

 

The next day I mailed another Comenity payment from the post office in Merrimac, Massachusetts, which post office opened in 1989 and thus does not give the Ipswich one a run for its money in the historic-ness department.  : /

 

 

Edited August 3, 2024 by Sidewinder

[hdporter]

SW ... I really have my fingers crossed that you mail a letter home from each p.o.  In your shoes, I'd consider such a collection of cancellations to be precious!

[Sidewinder]

On 8/3/2024 at 6:42 PM, hdporter said:

SW ... I really have my fingers crossed that you mail a letter home from each p.o.  In your shoes, I'd consider such a collection of cancellations to be precious!

 

I don't think cancellation happens at local post offices anymore; I think it happens at the P&DC.

[Sidewinder]

Here is the beyond-bland post office in Prior Lake, Minnesota:

 

 

Upon mailing something from here, I became concerned that maybe I wasn't allowed to mail anything else unless I did it from a place called Next Lake.  : /

Edited March 16, 2025 by Sidewinder

[Sidewinder]

The village of Waban (rhymes with bobbin), Massachusetts is part of the city of Newton and this here post office is spitting* distance from a Green Line trolley stop. On September 27, 2021, I, Sidewinder, mailed my Eddie Bauer credit card payment from here. It was built in 1944 (which was a weird year for something in America to get built, on account of manpower was elsewhere) and the cornerstone notes that Patrick J. Connelly was postmaster.

 

*gross

 

 

A few weeks later I had to mail a check to my cousin in Massachusetts, and I took this as an opportunity to drive 45 minutes to Faribault and utilize this here architecturally significant post office:

 

I don't think it's right that the Faribault post office isn't on the National Register of Historic Places but maybe it will be someday.

 

Off of the St. Croix Trail (Minnesota state highway 95) is the sleepy town of Marine-on-St.-Croix.  The presence in Minnesota of a place with the word "Marine" in its name is even more disorienting than the name of the Stearns County town of "Freeport" (Freeport, we New Englanders know, is located on the Maine coast).  The post office isn't your usual sturdy brick structure but it does have that all-American rural look.  Would that I could have photographed it on a sunnier day, but Bank of America likes me a lot and I wasn't going to mess that up by paying late.  My mastercard payment departed to Dallas from here on November 16, 2021.

 

And another thing that happened that November was me mailing my CenterPoint Energy payment from this place.  This place is the post office for Lansing, Iowa.

(As the sign notes, this place is the post office for Lansing, IA.)

 

(It sure is.)

 

Edited November 27, 2025 by Sidewinder