tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50144365488169492432024-03-10T23:23:45.835-04:00PostlandiaAn acclaimed photo journal of post offices and places across the United States.Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.comBlogger324125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-43197618514100085192024-01-06T21:09:00.003-05:002024-01-06T21:10:36.238-05:002023 Postal SummaryWhoops! It's not the first time a year-end postal summary has come out a little late. Alas.
When you've been at this a long time it can become difficult to encounter low-lying postal fruit. Why, I finished visiting most if not all of the post offices [near me] in New York City, Long Island, north Jersey, and Connecticut a decade ago. Getting to new post offices requires effort; sometimes days ofEvan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-58517504096328259702023-11-22T19:42:00.016-05:002024-01-09T11:05:37.782-05:00The 2024 Calendar of Post Offices and PlacesI've been visiting and documenting post offices for 15 years now. This means I'm a bit older than I used to be. Yet, it also means I still have ridiculous amounts of fun exploring various corners of the country and collecting stories along the way. I don't really share those stories on the blog anymore, but it's not to say these stories aren't worth sharing. These years I've just dedicated my Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-16366961140757839722022-12-31T19:15:00.007-05:002023-04-25T19:45:17.887-04:002022 Postal SummaryWell, that lap around the sun went by quickly. Welcome to my 13th annual summary of the post offices and places I've visited. This was another comparatively light year: 424 new post offices spanning eight states, for a total of 10,984 post offices. This year I also revisited several dozen post offices for updated postmarks and photographs.
Two sizable trips accounted for all the new territory Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-80572380148572825062022-11-25T17:43:00.012-05:002023-11-22T01:59:43.912-05:00The 2023 Calendar of Post Offices and PlacesHello, everybody! Despite my lack of posting it has been a decent year for post office visits thus far, with a couple of sizable trips and some great stories. And, more importantly, the seventh annual Postlandia calendar is charging full steam ahead, with 12 all-new photogenic and interesting post offices and stories from all over the map.
The direct link to order online is [no longer available]Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-32811712259143020172021-12-31T21:08:00.006-05:002022-01-28T20:38:42.997-05:002021 Postal SummaryIt's hard to believe that this is my 12th annual summary of the post offices and places I've visited. Dang, I've been at this a while! According to my spreadsheets this year I visited 363 new post offices across five states, for a total of 10,558 post offices. I also visited four P.O.s across the border in New Brunswick, Canada (not included in the above tally). This year I also revisited many Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-84475221676789957752021-11-26T15:44:00.006-05:002021-12-01T11:38:27.072-05:00The 2022 Calendar of Post Offices and Places[Note: Direct purchase link: here.<!--Use code: SAVE30 now until Nov. 30 for a hefty discount!-->]
Well! I cannot believe this year is almost over. Postally speaking it hasn't been incredibly productive, though I still have plenty of stories to share. It has been tough to feel motivated since I've been unable to travel and experience many places first-hand; BUT, I have gotten a couple of posts Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-1936998128324947392021-11-23T18:54:00.010-05:002024-03-10T00:15:05.572-05:00Number of Post Offices by State (2021)Which state has the most post offices, and how many post offices are there? In early 2017 Postlandia answered these questions, and now Postlandia shall do so again!
Here is a ranking of U.S. states and territories by the number of active U.S. Post Offices by state (and territory) as of October 2021. Facilities include all USPS retail facilities: independent post offices (including APOs, RMPOs, Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-49770838359423265252021-11-07T18:48:00.009-05:002021-11-07T20:20:59.647-05:00Island Post Offices of Maine, Part IV: MonheganHi, everyone! It's been a while. Life; motivation; etc., y'know? I have been feeling motivated to write a bit since I just took my first post office trip in a while. It was actually a pair of weeklong trips, in early October, through northern New England and Upstate New York, and during them I photographed 306 post offices both old and new. (Actually, just about 250 of them were new. The other Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-43228059309989906452021-01-10T22:09:00.018-05:002023-11-22T01:21:08.376-05:002020 Postal SummaryWhat to say... I was able to visit 201 [new-to-me] post offices in 2020—a frustratingly low count—for a total of 10,195 post offices. 161 of those came during January and February during a trip to southern California. So what happened that made the rest of the year so unproductive? America kind of dropped the ball. Then America kicked the ball under the couch. Then America burned the Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-13700689640951416202020-11-26T15:35:00.025-05:002021-11-26T02:54:15.808-05:00The 2021 Calendar of Post Offices and Places[Edit, March 2021: the calendar has been removed from public sale.]
Hello, everyone! It's looking more and more likely that there will be a 2021 next year. To help celebrate, I am pleased to introduce the fifth annual Postlandia Calendar of Post Offices and Places! When I first started creating these back in 2016, I'd just completed my goal of visiting all 50 states by the age of 30. Since then Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-88312337673337475082020-11-07T07:00:00.012-05:002021-02-11T02:52:28.294-05:00Post Offices of the CaribbeanThree years ago I wrote a post about the post offices of Puerto Rico. It was fun to write; my one regret was that I didn't have any photos of my own to present to you. This has since changed!
The U.S. territories of Pureto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands were pummeled by the twin storms of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in late 2017. This led to destruction that was widely covered in the media. Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-40620793983163977932020-09-01T16:20:00.013-04:002020-09-04T14:46:50.101-04:00USPS Officials Order Historic Murals Covered in 12 States; Considering RemovalFrom Rural Florida to Upstate New York
Internal emails obtained via the Freedom of Information Act reveal that an "artwork workgroup” of high-level United States Postal Service (USPS) officials, including attorneys and USPS's Federal Preservation Officer, has directed facilities and maintenance personnel to cover up 80-year-old murals housed at 16 post offices spanning 12 states. USPS is Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-77877572998082681352020-01-05T11:26:00.001-05:002021-12-31T17:57:52.967-05:002019 Postal SummaryIt's hard to imagine that this blog was founded nearly a decade ago, and that this is my TENTH Postal Summary. I didn't write a lot here this past year... it's not because I haven't been up to anything (quite the contrary!), but I've been focusing more of my energies on the quicker 'n easier Instagram world. Postlandia has a popular, growing Instagram feed. I posted more than 400 (mostly) Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-4371216397309667782019-11-25T06:00:00.003-05:002020-11-26T14:44:14.325-05:00The 2020 Calendar of Post Offices and PlacesSo! It's been a while since I've written many articles, but I've still been logging several thousand miles visiting post offices. Alas, it's that glorious time of the year that brings us pumpkin spice and the annual Postlandia Calendar of Post Offices and Places. I'm not here to write about the flavors of autumn, so hello calendar! For those of you new to the 'tradition,' the Postlandia calendar Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-24515825518400889462019-07-11T21:47:00.002-04:002019-11-26T16:15:38.789-05:0030,000: the Ultimate Post Office Photo Collection Keeps GrowingThree years ago I introduced readers of this blog to the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC)'s Online Post Office Photo Project. The Post Mark Collectors Club operates the National Postmark Museum in Bellevue, Ohio, and among its unparalleled collections is a catalogued cabinet with 60,000 printed post office photographs. The images span all 50 states, and even all U.S. counties.
As I detailed in Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-42709096968047388942019-01-16T15:14:00.002-05:002019-11-26T16:18:55.134-05:00Postal Tour: Champaign–Urbana, ILChampaign–Urbana, a.k.a. Urbana–Champaign, a.k.a. Chambana, in eastern Illinois, is a twin city with a population of roughly 140,000, 125 miles from downtown Chicago. The first question that comes to mind: which came first—the Champaign or the Urbana? It was, in fact, the latter: first settled in 1822, the Urbana post office was established in 1836. It likely would have remained the only Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-55412247980040697522019-01-13T13:22:00.000-05:002019-11-26T16:20:51.760-05:00Holcomb, KansasThis is a modest entry, one that occurred to me only a year after I visited the town of Holcomb, Kansas and, somewhere along the same road trip that took me there, listened to This American Life: Our Town. If you've heard this episode you'll understand. Finney County, Kansas, has seen a sizable influx of Latino workers to this rural, stereotypically deep red pocket of a deep red state. But as KHIEvan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-12194335544929327492019-01-06T13:58:00.000-05:002019-11-26T16:22:51.982-05:00Panhandling in Oklahoma (or, Visiting Post Offices in Five States in One Day)Using Albuquerque as a base, last January I was able to do something I hadn't even considered you could reasonably do outside the northeast United States: visit post offices in five states in one day, all while driving less than 200 miles. It's like the Four Corners on steroids! (Actually, the feat can be accomplished in less than 150 miles, but I went philatelically all-out.) Let me explain...
Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-40390756794401578622018-12-31T17:45:00.002-05:002019-12-29T22:59:21.783-05:002018 Postal SummaryIt's that time of the year again... the end of it! This blog has been around since 2010, and every year I've posted a year-end summary of all the post offices I've visited that year. So, welcome to our ninth annual summary!
(As always, my prior summaries can be found at these links: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.
Let's go!)
2018 was a comparatively modest year. I visited a Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-60858568162507098352018-11-20T17:33:00.000-05:002018-11-20T17:33:18.856-05:00Beautiful Post Office: Dubuque, IowaDubuque holds a special place in history: It is, per its website, "Iowa's oldest city and is among the oldest settlements west of the Mississippi River. The first permanent settler to the area was French-Canadian fur trader Julien Dubuque." The region contained rich deposits of lead, and Mr. Dubuque worked with the native Mesquakie to mine it until the time of his death in 1810.
Dubuque is also Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-62603656912867379392018-11-08T15:26:00.001-05:002019-11-25T03:30:56.928-05:00The 2019 Calendar of Post Offices and PlacesWelcome, welcome, welcome! It's that time of the year again—time for a brand-new iteration of the Postlandia Calendar of Post Offices and Places [update, 2019: product no longer available; link removed]! I'm super-excited for the 2019 edition, which features 12 all-new images of wonderful post office buildings from across the country. I've taken most of these images during the course of my Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-57565269321187262082018-09-17T20:56:00.001-04:002018-09-17T20:59:56.982-04:00Z is for ZanesvilleOhio is great for alphabet enthusiasts. It has communities (read: post offices) beginning with all four of the rarest letters of the English language: J [Jackson, Jackson Center, Jacksontown, Jacksonville, etc.], Q [Quaker City, Quincy], X [Xenia], and Z [Zaleski, Zanesfield, Zanesville, Zoar]. (How do you know they're the four rarest letters in the English language? Look at the values of their Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-37905246258037583672018-08-04T15:17:00.001-04:002018-10-09T22:09:40.385-04:00Postal Tour: Duluth, Minnesota
Duluth is so much more than an important city in Ticket to Ride. (Note: the board places Duluth where Minneapolis actually is. Let's have a look at a real map.)
Duluth hugs the shoreline of the very western edge of Lake Superior, which makes for wonderful dawn vistas because the city is largely built up the slope of a hill facing east. To wit: here's a 3-D rendering via Google Earth, and a Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-56693678399919528712018-08-02T14:00:00.000-04:002018-08-02T14:00:18.710-04:00The Old Post Office: IndianapolisAh, Indianapolis. Hoosier Central. There's a former building in Indianapolis that definitely deserves to be highlighted on this blog, and it is the Birch Bayh Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse smack-dab downtown. Inside I was only able to see the entrance (this building is not generally accessible to the public), but just the very corner of the building was remarkable. The building, as Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014436548816949243.post-29063691532697767012018-08-02T11:27:00.000-04:002018-08-04T15:17:48.916-04:00Postal Tour: Wheeling, West VirginiaTake I-70 from Pennsylvania toward Ohio and you'll pass through West Virginia. Though not for long—you'll be in and out in a mere 14.2 miles, a blink of an Interstate eye. You'll have driven through what's known as the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, a 63-mile spit of land that hugs the western end of Pennsylvania out to the Ohio River. The Northern Panhandle consists of four counties, Evan K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09434732912558000563noreply@blogger.com0