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Post Office Picture Book In The Flesh

Went ahead and ordered a physical copy of the South Carolina Post Office Picture Book on the 28th of May. It’s 8″ x 11″ hard-covered 89 pages wasn’t cheap, even at the 40% sale price. Mr. Mailman delivered it to our door today and it sure is pretty.

You can still see all the photos for free by peeking in this gallery right here. The book, in contrast the gallery’s alphabetical layout, runs in chronological order, so it is kind of a history of our travels around South Carolina.

This got me thinking of a sequel trip, and the inevitable photo book, for Donna and I to visit every one of Oregon’s Post Offices. Using the information I found on the website Postal Locations I’ve determined that there are about 375 Post Offices in our new home state (South Carolina had 455.) I’ve created a spreadsheet and I’m about 2/3rds of the way through confirming their addresses on the USPS site.

Right now there are about a half dozen that we can do in a day drive, but after that, who knows when we’ll be safe enough to stay overnight in a hotel, let alone venture anywhere closer that a hundred miles of any of the big cites in the state…

Post Office Picture Book

Decades in the making!1 A book about Donna and my traveling the state of South Carolina taking pictures of every Post Office. Back in the mid 2000’s we poked our head into every nook and cranny of SC taking pictures of the Miata in front of Post Offices, the results can be seen right here on Life of Brian by going to the PO Galleries here.

I’m using my old friend Shutterfly which I used to make calendars of Miata photos and other picture books of our travels. This book will include photos of all 456 Post Offices and will be over 90 pages long when I get done with it. All my previous books were 20-25 pages and cost around $25 dollars, this baby will be right around $100. That is if I decide I want to spent that much… Or this might just end up as a really nice way to kill several days while I practice our “Stay at Home, Stay Safe” COVID-19 lock down. Right now, after 3 days, I’m about 60% done adding photos and their captions to the book. Her is a little sneak peek: