I visited as many as 39 post offices in one day. State by state, counting only new, distinct active postal locations (including CPUs) for the year:
Pennsylvania: 74 post offices
Focus/Foci: Rural corners of northern PA
Ohio: 46
North-central Ohio and Cleveland suburbs
Connecticut: 38
Northeast and south-central CT
New York: 21
Southern Tier
In addition to these I also visited discontinued / suspended post offices for documentation purposes as well as historic former post office buildings.
Among privately-operated Contract Postal Units was the operation at the student center at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio:
Kent, OH: Kent State University CPU:
![Kent State University Contract Postal Unit, 2015](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv8VQVxMqscAONfuZPSt-8-Sh2KDnvDhshbA5LO-FrKbp10hnoxLxHiZliOqJATT8zofh9-X35XniEluqjXh43f9YSwxoAwwWZuCXzYtiVjZU1_5oS9sbg4W3_Nm_FCcSPekytFcnaowKE/s640-Ic42/Kent%252520OH%252520KSU%252520CPU.jpg)
Former sites visited this year include the grand old post office of Hornell, New York, which celebrates its centennial in 2016. Well, I suppose it would be celebrated were the structure not presently relegated to the municipal equivalent of a paperweight.
Hornell, NY: former post office:
![Hornell, NY: former post office](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_WHAuVx3g25c2n6YHzQu6lVd6DEbT4qY5NDRkNLUZp0oKQkqaGfVrNNq5AK04thTHf4XGP9eoJtal2-cE0U1nRHbuH0tVJbo_r_-uY37JSl3gYeU6r7xaxh_mADNygOdmwuwh4O6eLlpz/s640-Ic42/Hornell%252520NY%252520Old%252520PO.jpg)
![Hornell, NY: former post office cornerstone](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTks7jIhag5-7xHHcZ677H3pYzz6RtIF3WjMJcRrl-tXzNHCS0zzAO7kCsSITOjbwNu79dha9rvmW_lxqk6HeR0K12K2HyKadnHkhtM3t9gChptfZcwqsT5Wc7k8BLKuBd9EARg9IocDdQ/s640-Ic42/Hornell%252520NY%252520Old%252520PO%252520Cornerstone.jpg)
There had been a post office in Barton, New York until it was washed away by flooding caused by Hurricane Irene in 2011 and never replaced. It was around here somewhere:
Barton, NY:
![Barton, NY](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFDNvlIJbS22OE9f6WIko2NjJU-HuCLLKjd4OCsDeU2PbKZ_sgjq6zZiXQyA0sG1ZoeLMmsMZxI99y6zMmF_ULrXeO7Oi4qKLIHovazgYpXv5-fdF5chKoYkiSpSFK8f5ejMw0XPTJ7Tpv/s640-Ic42/Barton%252520NY.jpg)
Despite some yearning for what we've lost I did find several wonderfully photogenic post offices this year, including that in Milan, Pennsylvania, made all the more stunning during the peak of an August sunset:
Milan, Pennsylvania post office:
![Milan, PA post office, 2015](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBiUSNoAihavRTYKKj2UMtlXyihCVZ4cBb35Ri-PT-Fvwb8rZTPk9R7CXwITlKKfXLlKbcwHACBNtxvZ0_HevZYb3wHzw4weDTKHnLf2XltmFn27z3MLbaf61q1v_nIg3R9IFCf3iwTlYy/s640-Ic42/Milan%252520PA%252520PO.jpg)
Count-wise, I reached a modest milestone this year. My 6,500th post office was New Riegel, Ohio.
New Riegel, OH post office:
![New Riegel, OH post office](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy5XOYHEv0jVeuBZzB6KusBUB7dZlzaiqlpOr5pBO5TLa6Dv8msP9oDxR_ls7zy0ciH0HT7M_3kG9nIFH7qo-0ll2geciZGi-1gHTENHFOBKpHPHNVrH7XIQ2FfP3pxUduwNayXbNcp9FB/s640-Ic42/New%252520Riegel%252520OH%252520PO.jpg)
See y'all next year! Well, this year. Had a bit of a late start on this post, I suppose.