[AT] Other related collections question for the list

[Roy Morgan]

On Dec 20, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Grant Brians wrote:

> I collect other things than just antique tractors... the historical  
> towns/rural post
> offices/rural gathering places that had post offices in our county ...

Grant,

There is just now on the BBC news web site a short video on a fellow  
who is especially interested in the disappearing small town post  
offices in USA.  He travels around and makes pictures of the Post  
offices and gets a usually hand stamped letter or post card from the  
place.  I suggest you have a look:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16192806

America's disappearing post offices
The post office has long been a core part of almost every community in  
America, yet the future looks bleak for the United States Postal  
Service.

In a bid to dig itself out of a $10bn deficit, the USPS is considering  
cutting 120,000 jobs and shutting more than 3,500 post offices.

Evan Kalish, a 25-year-old graduate student, is trying to visit as  
many as possible before they disappear. So far he has collected post  
marks at more than 2,700 post offices across the US.

Crisscrossing the country, even going as far as Hawaii, Evan is  
chronicling on his blog the slow death of an institution originally  
founded in 1775. In this first person account, he explains why he  
began this odyssey.


Roy Morgan
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