The Worlds Only Canadian/American Post Office.

Hi guys..Think you will find this interesting...In Beebe Plain Quebec in the late 1800's.

One of the strangest post offices on record was the so-called "world's only double post office," located in the border village of Beebe Plain. The post office had two doors, one in the U.S....the other in Canada...two postal counters...and one postmaster serving customers from both sides of the line.

START LOOKING FOR YOUR BEEBE CANCELS..

Robert


The location in Quebec




More detailed location




Orignal building from 1900



As the building looks today.

This is how the mail was handled from that location in 1914 ... not very efficient:

And what people don't know is that that's Justin Beebe's home town.

Thanks for that wt1

Talk about the beauorcracy.

Chimo

Bujutsu

That article is pretty good. I was watching something on TV...it might have been "How the (United) States Were made". It discussed what determined how the borders of the states were determined. They had a library in that show that had a yellow line drawn at an angle along the middle of the floor. Part of it was in the US, part of it was in Canada.


-IBFS

Wiki has noted this legend:




...and...

Found that library...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskel..._Opera_House


-IBFS

Here's a better view of the post office from the files of the Vermont Philatelic Society. If you're interested in Vermont postal history, you should be a member. If anyone wishes to contact me, I'll send you a pdf of the latest issue of the Vermont Philatelists (February 2015).

Glenn Estus
President, VPS
Editor VP

Anyone know exactly when that "borderline" Post Office closed? The Postal Bulletin seems to suggest the Post Office moved sometime around 1938, so I'm guessing it was around that period when the two post offices were separated.

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