Talk:List of United States post offices

Yonkers, NY
There is another post office in Yonkers. --2605:6001:e790:5800:c12c:8a82:30c:4733 (talk • contribs) 23:42, 1 April 2016‎ (UTC)
 * Yes, but only US Post Office-Yonkers is recognized as a historic building and deemed notable enough to have a Wikipedia article about it. -- do ncr  am  20:57, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

related navigation template, and about sourcing
There was a navigation template which was deemed too big to be helpful, which essentially duplicated this list, less all the redlinks. This was covered in Templates for discussion/Log/2017 January 17, recently concluded.

I removed a negative tag on this article about its sourcing, perhaps related. The content of this list is mainly the post offices that are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, because those are probably all individually Wikipedia-notable and the list of them is available through the NRIS database. One could add a reference to NRIS for each item separately, but that wouldn't be particularly helpful, it would just make 500 or 900 copies of the same reference. I don't think it is disputed whether any single item on this list belongs here...they are just post offices... and I don't think footnote copies would help. It is not necessary to footnote everything in any article; only assertions which are contentious, disputed or unusual really need to be footnoted. If someone else perceives there to be a sourcing issue, please explain. -- do ncr  am  16:35, 28 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Most but not necessarily all of the items are National Register-listed. The bluelink items in this list have separate sourcing at their articles, which doesn't need to be copied to here.  The redlink items are all (i think) supported by supporting bluelinks (like is required on disambiguation pages per MOS:DABRL) to NRHP list-articles that use the redlink in context.  Those NRHP list-articles are themselves sourced, are based on NRIS, in their identifying the places as being listed on the National Register, establishing their existence as post offices. -- do  ncr  am  16:40, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Information I'd like to have

 * For each post office, year opened.


 * For former post offices, location, year opened, year closed.


 * Postmasters, if known and significant. John Brown (abolitionist) was briefly the postmaster of a long-vanished office in Randolph, Pennsylvanial


 * Post offices that are historically important, such as that of Charleston, South Carolina, where, with approval from the Postmaster General and the President, I think Jackson, for publicly burning abolitionist mail instead of delivering it.

deisenbe (talk) 09:54, 28 November 2020 (UTC)