The last installment of a 10-part series in which Justin Moyer, part-time musician, part-time journalist, and full-time USPS enthusiast visits a bunch of post offices in our nation's capital so you don't have to.
Location: 5632 Connecticut Avenue NW
Date: 4/21/09
Time: 2:59 p.m.
O, Chevy Chase! Crown jewel of Upper Northwest! Are your post offices as well-kept as [...]
A 10-part series in which Justin Moyer, part-time musician, part-time journalist, and full-time USPS enthusiast visits a bunch of post offices in our nation's capital so you don't have to.
Location: 2300 18th St. NW
Date: 4/20/09
Time: 4:47 p.m.
18th Street is renowned for its loose women, looser men, well drinks, jumbo slices, and fine imported goods. But [...]
[NO PHOTO OF ARLINGTON STATION 22201 IS AVAILABLE, AS YOUR CORRESPONDENT'S CAMERA RAN OUT OF BATTERIES AT A PARTICULARLY INOPPORTUNE MOMENT. BUT, IN LIEU OF A PHOTO, IMAGINE A STATELY, GOLD-TOPPED, CLASSICAL BUILDING – A BUILDING NOT UNLIKE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, THE U.S. CAPITOL DOME, OR THE WHITE HOUSE. INDEED, IMAGINE A RESPLENDENT BUILDING [...]
A 10-part series in which Justin Moyer, part-time musician, part-time journalist, and full-time USPS enthusiast visits a bunch of post offices in our nation's capital so you don't have to.
Location: 900 Brentwood Rd. N.E..
Date: 4/15/09
Time: 11:43 a.m.
If you live in D.C. and you receive mail, you've gotta love Curseen-Morris 20066, D.C.'s enormous postal distribution center. [...]
A 10-part series in which Justin Moyer, part-time musician, part-time journalist, and full-time USPS enthusiast visits a bunch of post offices in our nation's capital so you don't have to.
Location: 600 Pennsylvania Ave SE
Date: 4/15/09
Time: 11:16 a.m.
Though I'd never visited Southeast Station before today, a trusted confidante informed in an email in re: "A Particularly [...]
A 10-part series in which Justin Moyer, part-time musician, part-time journalist, and full-time USPS enthusiast visits a bunch of post offices in our nation's capital so you don't have to.
Location: 1400 L St. NW
Date: 4/16/09
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Full disclosure: 20043 and I have a long, troubled history. When I worked a few doors down from MLK [...]
A 10-part series in which Justin Moyer, part-time musician, part-time journalist, and full-time USPS enthusiast visits a bunch of post offices in our nation's capital so you don't have to.
Location: 416 Florida Ave. NW
Date: 4/8/09
Time: 3:35 p.m.
On the bleak polygon formed by the intersection of S Street NW and Florida, Rhode Island, and New Jersey [...]
A 10-part series in which Justin Moyer, part-time musician, part-time journalist, and full-time USPS enthusiast visits a bunch of post offices in our nation's capital so you don't have to.
Location: 4005 Wisconsin Avenue NW
Date: 4/8/09
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Up the street from the Obama-worthy Sidwell Friends School and troubled mortgage lender Fannie Mae, Friendship Station is the [...]
A 10-part series in which Justin Moyer, part-time musician, part-time journalist, and full-time USPS enthusiast visits a bunch of post offices in our nation's capital so you don't have to.
Location: 3401 12th St. NE
Date: April 7
Time: 1:07 p.m.
"My band rehearses at this delightful practice space in Brookland."
"Brooklyn?"
"No—Brookland. In Washington, D.C."
So runneth the typical exchange with [...]
Location: 3430 Connecticut Avenue NW
Date: April 7
Time: 4:28 p.m.
Cleveland Park is an errand-running mother lode. A trip to trusty old P.O. 20008 offers a good chance visit its notable neighbors: Yes! Natural Foods, Magruder's, Petco, CVS, Supercuts, and the Uptown movie theater, where I saw the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy. But does the [...]
As a touring musician and owner of a small record label, I have not found fame and fortune, but I have spent a lot of time at the post office. Demo tapes, CDs, album masters, album art, press packets, promo posters, money orders from the road, gear sold on EBay—trust me, I've mailed a lot [...]
