Post Office Closings in Texas by Brewster Hudspeth The recent news of some 3,600 post office closing nationwide included a list of nearly 200 potential closings in Texas. It�s a cost-cutting measure...
Post Offices by Mike Cox With email and other forms of digital communication virtually (pun intended) having killed old-fashioned first class mail, it�s time to pay more attention to the history of all the hundreds if not thousands of post offices Texas has had over the years. Many have been closed...
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The Pithy Tale of Owney, the Post Office Pup by Maggie Van Ostrand Owney was a muttly terrier who rose from the ranks of the homeless to celebrity status with his image on the newly issued U.S. Forever postage stamp. His life was that of a courageous 19th-Century pioneer pup, fighting the odds, if not the Indians...
The Postman Rang More Than Twice in Karnack by Mike Cox Delivering mail along his 75.10-mile daily route in rural East Texas from 1919 to 1969 through two-wheeled, mule-drawn cart, then horse and buggy days, to automobile.
Henry Skillman, frontier mail courier by Clay Coppedge Today, historians know Skillman best as the man who drove the first west-bound Overland Butterfield Mail stage from Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River to El Paso in 1858.
Amarillo by Airmail by Mike Cox With five cents in postage and an additional 20 cents for special delivery, the envelope had left the Panhandle shortly before 8 a.m. that day. The plane carrying it and airmail landed in Kansas City, where postal workers transferred the bag holding the letter to Bush to another plane. That aircraft reached the Windy City at 9:30 p.m. From the airport, the letter and others went by truck to the north side post office. When it arrived there, a carrier drove it to Bush�s residence for delivery only 15 hours and 30 minnutes after it left Amarillo. While that is snail-like compared with email, it was incredibly fast for 1930, especially to the Bush brothers...
Fritch by Mike Cox Not many people are still around who remember Fritch�s colorful former postmaster, but a lot of people have laughed at the stories told by the most famous son of Fritch -- comedian Ron White of Blue Collar Comedy Tour fame...
Texas Post Offices Forum Can't wait to explore this newest addition to your site! As a Postmaster, I am especially going to enjoy it. Wanted to clue you in on my own office. Even though the building is only about 3 years old, it's facade is built to resemble the mercantile store that sat on the site over 100 years ago. The town's residents gathered the money to pay an architect to modify the standard format the Postal service was planning for the location. Thus as Glen Flora's Post office is the "oldest" new Post Office, Burton has the "newest" old Post Office. Come see us! - Kathryn Cockroft Postmaster Burton TX 77835, July 03, 2002 More Texas Architecture
