Pointless prize: Post Office

[AlanA]

Here are the basic rules that I’ve come up with so far:

1. One post per day (I’m not a fan of the spam rides) and no repeat post offices (per person). If two people post the same PO, I’m ok with that. If you find a bunch of great ones while on one ride, go back and do that ride again! Of course, this is on the honor system.
2. Use #PO on your Strava ride to make it official for leaderboards and post your picture to Strava for that ride.
3. Make sure you you get the name of the town in the picture. This is why I’m not requiring a picture of the bike.
4. Feel free to post your pictures to this post. There may be bonus points available for some of the more interesting ones. That could be important in the case of a tight contest! I’ll also enjoy seeing what you come up with.
5. lol, and bear with me as I come up with some way to keep you advised on who may be getting bonus points. I’m not very tech inclined. I pretty much ride my bike, travel and don’t do the tech stuff.

link to the FS leaderboard:

https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/PO

I’m still trying to figure out something for bonus points. Bear with me.

And now, as to why I am doing this:

I’ve done my fair share of travelling across the country, and I enjoy taking pictures of some of the really cool post offices while on a bike ride. Some are really big. Some are really small. Some are really old. Some have million dollar views. Some have $50 views. Your job is to find them!! (while riding your bike). I’m also not concerned about getting your bike in the picture. It’s not always that easy. And, if you feel you need to cheat to get a dumb prize, go for it!

I plan on coming up with prizes for the top three. I’m still not sure what the prizes will be, but I’m not a cheapskate! Maybe a book of stamps, maybe a t-shirt from some town with a cool post office, maybe a 6-pack of beer from a town with a cool post office. Who knows! That makes it even more exciting!

And for a bit of of what I’m looking for, I’ll post three of my pictures. The 1st is a small PO, the 2nd is a bit larger and the 3rd has million dollar views.

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p.s. I will also be playing along but don’t worry about me taking one of the prizes.

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[consularrider]

FDR Station, corner of 3rd Ave and E 54th St, Midtown, Manhattan

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[CaseyKane50]

1/5/2022

Eads Station
1301 Eads Streets
Arlington, Virginia

The name of the post office can seen just above my bike “Eads Station”. This post office is just around corner from the Amazon complex.

[CaseyKane50]

1/6/2022

Trade Center Finance Unit
366 South Pickett Street
Alexandria, Virginia

[Sophie CW]

How do I in-do a Dislike? I didn’t mean to do that…. Sorry!

Here’s my photo of the Twinbrook Post Office in Rockville, MD:
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Too bad the sky couldn’t have been bluer.

[AlanA]

@Sophie CW 212678 wrote:

How do I in-do a Dislike? I didn’t mean to do that…. Sorry!

Here’s my photo of the Twinbrook Post Office in Rockville, MD:
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Too bad the sky couldn’t have been bluer.

You can’t undo a dislike (which is too bad). All you can do is what you did. Let them know it was a mistake.

[Sophie CW]

Sorry! I didn’t mean to dislike your post. I hit by mistake. I like your photo of the Alexandria post office!

[Sophie CW]

@CaseyKane50 212662 wrote:

1/6/2022

Trade Center Finance Unit
366 South Pickett Street
Alexandria, Virginia

Sorry! I didn’t mean to dislike your post. I hit by mistake. I like your photo of the Alexandria post office!

[consularrider]

Elmsford, NY Post Office, located a few wheel rotations from the South County Trailway (Old Putnam rail line)

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[AlanA]

@consularrider 212693 wrote:

Elmsford, NY Post Office, located a few wheel rotations from the South County Trailway (Old Putnam rail line)

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A tad smaller than your NYC ones. What’s the red box for? I don’t recall seeing anything like that at a PO. Is it for nuclear waste disposal?

[CaseyKane50]

@Sophie CW 212682 wrote:

Sorry! I didn’t mean to dislike your post. I hit by mistake. I like your photo of the Alexandria post office!

No worries, it has happened to all of us.

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

Contract post office in Washington Plaza on Lake Anne in Reston, and yes it’s in a chocolate shop! And their handcrafted chocolates are delicious! Kind of hard to see in the photo, but the name of the shop is Chesapeake Chocolates. Two Herndon sisters-in-law started the business in 1998.
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[Steve O]

An iconic neighborhood with a prosaic post office. Oh, well.

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[consularrider]

@AlanA 212694 wrote:

A tad smaller than your NYC ones. What’s the red box for? I don’t recall seeing anything like that at a PO. Is it for nuclear waste disposal?

Marine Corps League collection box for worn flags.

[CaseyKane50]

1/7/2022

Park Fairfax Station
Alexandria, Virginia

[consularrider]

Radio City Station, W 52nd St in Hell’s Kitchen. Name is under the USPS logo on the short wall.

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[Author]

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