Mail Boat

J.W. WESTCOTT II — MAIL BOAT

Detroit River, Michigan 48222

The only boat in the world with an exclusive Zip Code Number.  (J.W. Westcott is postmaster of the Great Lakes.) The year 1969 begins the 75th year of direct ship-to-ship mail deliveries. Operates 24 hours-a-day from mid-April to mid-December. The Westcott II takes mail from the postal station on First Street in Detroit and meets Great Lakes freighters and keeps pace with the moving freighter while a crewman lowers a maibucket down over the side and into the cabin of the mailboat, and in seconds hauls it up again. Then the Westcott is on its way to shore.

 

Wrong Way to Mail Postcards

Letters to Santa

LETTERS TO SANTA — Arrive daily throughout the year at the North Pole, N. Y. U. S. Post Office. Here, in his home at Santa's Workshop, Santa and two of his Gnomes open letters from children of all ages, throughout the world.

Send Me a Postcard

Note: October 9 is World Post Day.

Post Office Hell

U. S. POST OFFICE

Hell, Michigan

Back in 1841 whiskey stills were operated here on the banks of a small stream. This notorious place soon became known as H E L L and the stream became H E L L  C R E E K. Some years later a dam was placed here and the beautiful meandering H I - L A N D  L A K E  was formed.