Match The Postmark To A Post Office.

There is already a topic about turning a Post Office into a home but going a step sideways I thought it might be fun/interesting/educational to match a particular postmark to the Post Office involved. With Google Streetview it cannot be too difficult to find the pairings. Here is a postmark I got today... and the relevant P.O.

Nice Scott

Would it be a sub office or is it a main post office for a small community?

I ask this because here in Canada, most post offices located in stores are basically sub offices. In my town, there is the main office then a sub office located in a drug store in the north end of town.

Chimo

Bujutsu

I just heard recently that the sub offices located in drug stores (Shoppers Drug Mart) here in Canada, are not actually owned by the post office, but are sub-contracted out to a private company. Anyone know if that's true?

Bujutsu wrote :Would it be a sub office or is it a main post office for a small community?
This is probably a sub Post Office. It's like a village post office within a town near a big town kind of place by looking at the map. Elderslie/ Johnstone/ Paislie

The arrow saying "Portree Post" does not exist due to Health and Safety regulations

I can see this getting addictive scotzm!

How are you capturing the images from streetview to post here? I've just been trying it...

Hi All

Interesting thread and thanks to those that posted some answers. Here in my town though, the sub office is not in a Shoppers Drug Mart but is in the IDA drug store. So, maybe Canada Post has a contract to have sub offices in drug stores in the different small towns here in Canada? Just a thought.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Stampgal asked: How are you capturing the images from streetview to post here? I've just been trying it...

My way of doing that is simply to press the Prt Sc (print screen) key ...then open an image viewer/editor (in my case it is Irfanview) and paste it in for cropping etc. Seeing a photo of a place where someone posted my mail is something I wanted to do for ages. I've been meaning to go back to the places where I have lived in the past (mainly small villages and towns in Scotland) and send myself something with a postmark. Some Post Offices are now in danger of closure so I better get on with it.

do you have a screen capture tool in you accessories folder?

I think Prt Sc is a standard way of getting a snapshot of the screen into the Clipboard so you can "paste" it into any editor/viewer.

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The Post Office is the building with the galvanised sheeting roof on the left. Nice postbox, nice sign, terrible run-down building.

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What a great topic! Thanks for thinking of this scotzm!




True. They are owned by the Drug Store of whatever the business is. The employees that work in those Post Offices are employees of the drug store and paid by them but wear Canada Post uniforms.





They are also in major cities across the country, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Halifax, etc. In Halifax here, there are two corporate Post Offices (employees are Canada Post employees) and 10+ (not sure) associate post offices in Lawtons and Shoppers. Across the harbour in Dartmouth the same story.



I'll have to borrow my brother's camera and go a photoing as the outside pics look like drug stores and the post office itself is inside in a back corner usually.

I think everyone just calls them post offices and doesn't differentiate between corporate or associate. They are all the same to us consumers and from what I can see the employees are probably told to present themselves as if they are representing Canada Post. So to those not in the know it looks like the post office is just saving rent for a big building or something.