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Thanks to a comment on yesterday’s post by Paul Wilczynski who is from North Charleston I reduced the total number of South Carolina Post Offices by one to 460. He let me know that there used to be a PO in Aunt Bea’s, but it was closed down a couple months ago. So now after last weekend’s Safari I am down to just 9 remaining Post Offices left to photograph.

Six of these are on military bases throughout the state and it remains to be seen if I am going to do them or not. It will depend on whether I am allowed on the Naval Weapons Station in Goose Creek. The 2 Marine bases in Beaufort, Paris Island and the MCAS have no problem with visitors, I’ve checked. I assume Fort Jackson in Columbia won’t be a problem as they are a Basic Training Depot for the Army and are used to visitors. The 2 Air Force bases have a stricter visitation policy in that you need at least someone stationed there to escort you, I have an in for the Charleston AFB, but for the one in Sumter I don’t. I haven’t yet checked about the Naval Weapons Center, but I can see where they would have a very good rationale not to let civilians on board with a camera. If I can’t get on one base I will not do any of them and will add Amendment 3 to the Post Office Photo Safari Constitution: Seeing as all U.S. Military bases are United States property, they are technically not part of the state of South Carolina, and as such will be stricken from the Big List.

If that happens, we will be down to the final three: A CPU in Beaufort, Saint Helena Island and Daufuskie Island.