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Category Archives: Post offices
Jan
11
Havelock has a post office again
July 23, 2009: The apparently-now-former Havelock post office. By August 2013, according to Google Street View, cluster boxes had been placed on the left side of the building. (Hard to believe this picture is nearly a decade old. — Ed.) … Continue reading
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Nov
19
Dolliver post office closed
September 29, 2015: Downtown Dolliver, in the middle of a weekday. The post office is the white-and-blue building on the right. The post office in tiny Dolliver closes today, according to a Des Moines Register story citing a USPS press … Continue reading
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Jan
29
A milestone without fanfare
If the price of a stamp hits 50 cents and media outlets give it scant coverage, did it happen at all? Is it a sign of how much people aren’t mailing things? Or is it related to the fact that … Continue reading
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Aug
08
They held an election and no one showed up
September 29, 2015: Outdoor post office boxes (left) replaced the post office building (right) in McIntire in 2011. Special elections are notoriously low-turnout things. See, for example, the vote last week on supervisor districts in Linn County, which existed only … Continue reading
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Jun
08
Dismounting
June 1, 2015: Mount Union post office. The Henry County town of Mount Union wants to disincorporate. It would be the fourth Iowa town to do so this decade. According to records from the Iowa secretary of state, Mount Union was … Continue reading
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Sep
18
Thayer lost its post office
A small southwest Iowa town that had received a reprieve from one round of post office closings appears to have lost its post office anyway. The post office in the Union County town of Thayer, pop. 59, was supposed to … Continue reading
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Jun
29
USPS reduction in hours affects 572 Iowa post offices
I haven’t used the “Post Offices” category in a while, but it looks like it’s about to come back in a big way. A story at KWWL tipped me off to this.* There’s also a story from KCRG, embedded above. … Continue reading
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Sep
25
All the Art Deco
July 20, 2012: Closeup of stonework above the entrance to the Harlan post office. A Flickr user writes, “Built in 1935, this post office is home to a 1937 New Deal mural by Richard Gates entitled “The Farmer Feeding Industry.” … Continue reading
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Jul
02
Carroll, Creston sorting centers to close
There was one more attempt to save them, but that failed. The sorting centers in Waterloo and Cedar Rapids will remain open, at least.
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May
11
Post offices saved, but too late for Buckingham
A day late and a dollar 45-cent stamp short, I know. Kyle Munson has been on it. This is the list of reduced hours. (PDF, organized by ZIP code and state abbreviaion) It includes a lot of those places that … Continue reading
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