The Empire State

Oh wow! That would be another angle for a theme collection - towns that don't exist any more (or at least Post Offices that don't exist anymore)!

This is related to another current thread about defunct countries.

I grew up in rural Minnesota and can think of 5-6 towns that no longer have post offices and a couple that haven't had anything for 50 years or more.

That is actually a quite popular area of collecting called DPO - Dead Post Offices... I think you might even find listings of such post offices around on the net. I'm pretty sure Jim Forte's site lists most of them, along with postal history for sale from those towns: http://www.postalhistory.com

-Allen

David, I am originally from South Central PA. But back in the 70s and early 80s I made many trips to Buffalo and also to Syracuse to visit family members. I don't know if these cities are considered upstate, but at Watertown is.

I spent one summer camp with the US Army reserve artillery in Watertown. When I through the upstate area, I nearly convinced myself to move there. It is special because it was there that I began to understand how much God loves all of us.

marty

Marty:

So you trained at Fort Drum?

David

I have an 1950 Australian FDC from a town called Home Rule, not far from here. The PO closed in 1966. The town is now gone. Not a ghost town, not flooded, not bulldozed, just gone. All that remains is part of the school. Things change very quickly.

quigngt,
To quote you, "I don't know if these cities are considered upstate"

For those of us who grew up in Da Bronx, anything north of Da Bronx is upstate New York.

Ray:

For us, all you folks are still "down south".

David