Hours and contact.
The office is open Tuesday through Saturday, 9:00 to 5:00. Dottie Reyes is on the counter Tuesday and Thursday mornings. The office does not accept inquiries by email. This is a preference, not a technical limitation.
Posted at the door
The hours, as they
have always been.
They were set when the office opened and they have not been revised. There is no seasonal schedule, no holiday exception worth printing, and no plan to change any of it.
If the card says the office is open, the office is open. If it does not, ringing the bell will not help, though you are welcome to try.
If you need the office
There are three ways in.
None of them is email.
The office is reachable the way it has always been reachable. Warren considers this sufficient, and after eleven years, no one has proven him wrong.
Ring the bell
On the counter. Someone will come, if it is a counter morning.
Come to the counter
Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Dottie will be there. She remembers everything.
Leave it in writing
Drop a note through the slot. It will be logged the day it arrives.
The mechanism
The hours were set
before you arrived.
Every worker who ever clocked in here punched the same card on the same machine. Choose a number, slide the card into the throat, set the dial, and pull the lever.
Punch as many as you like. Every card comes back stamped with the same time -- because the office decided the hours long before anyone showed up to keep them. The clock only writes down what was already true.
The standing rule
"The office has not accepted an email in its history, and it has not missed a single day of business since 1889. I am comfortable with both facts."
-- W. Polk, Postmaster
Before you go
Come by, or don't.
The hours are the hours.
Now you know when the door is open and how to reach what is behind it. If you have something to send, the counter is ready. If you would rather read how the office got this particular, the record is open.
-- D. Reyes, counter, Tuesday and Thursday
Services
What the counter does
Weigh it, buy the postage, frank it, sort it. The same four steps, in the same order, every time.
Send somethingHistory
How it got this way
A hundred and thirty-five years of an office that documents everything and changes nothing.
Read the record