Featuring: Postal vans, postal electric bicycles, EMS logistics and stamps. As promised, a second go at Shanghai’s postal facilities the day after my first, this time the postal branch office (“支局”) on Tianshan Rd. Being a “branch” and not a “station,” it is visibly more spacious than its Zhongshan Rd. West counterpart, equipped, other than …
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Well well well, to duly follow up on my earlier post introducing some of Shanghai’s more idiosyncratic postal facilities, today I went to one that is decidedly commonplace — a postal station (albeit titled still as a “post office”) on the section of Changning Rd between West Zhongshan Rd. and Kaixun Rd., which is entirely …
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Any habitual reader of my blog (a species that I suspect does not exist) must know of my interest in things postal, as my quests to several DC post offices hopefully have made clear. However, since this interest grew out of my visit to the National Postal Museum, ever since when I have yet to …
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*Originally published on another blog of mine, Miscellaneous Notes, now republished here with slight edits and modifications* Two days ago I finally received in my mailbox the letter sent from Union Station nearly a month ago on Dec. 18. Turns out it was not lost in the system, or stolen in transit, but was deemed …
*Originally published on another blog of mine, Miscellaneous Notes, now republished here with slight edits and modifications* FEATURING — L’Enfant Plaza; USPS Headquarters L’Enfant Plaza Station I’ve been to L’Enfant Plaza several times before and was well aware of its awkward topography. There are tunnels, train tracks, overpasses, weird ramps and underground shopping centers, which …
*Originally published on another blog of mine, Miscellaneous Notes, now republished here with slight edits and modifications* FEATURING — Department of Agriculture; Bureau of Engraving and Printing Today is the first business day of 2024, so I set out to visit two more post offices and two more postal (or at least postally relevant) facilities. …
*Originally published on another blog of mine, Miscellaneous Notes, now republished here with slight edits and modifications* Alas, while the USPS and its army of postal workers take a well-deserved break on Jan. 1, a postal tourist knows no reprieve, and — as not one of DC’s post offices is open — went back to …
Read the full post →“First Stamps of the Year — Constantinople to Danzig to China”
*Originally published on another blog of mine, Miscellaneous Notes, now republished here with slight edits and modifications* FEATURING — Martin Luther King; General Post Office Building Today I again went on a postal trip across town — its destination? USPS’s Martin Luther King Jr. station, a short distance to the northeast of the White House. …
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*Originally published on another blog of mine, Miscellaneous Notes, now republished here with slight edits and modifications* FEATURING — Benjamin-Franklin A brief recap of my previous article — in Washington, DC’s Federal Triangle, a few blocks filled to the brim with, well, federal office buildings, stand two major postal facilities. One of them, the focus …
*Originally published on another blog of mine, Miscellaneous Notes, now republished here with slight edits and modifications* FEATURING — Old Post Office Building It was drizzling today, but I managed to pull myself out of my apartment for another post office visit. This time’s destination was the Benjamin Franklin station, located in the Federal Triangle …
