BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Not Covered Elsewhere

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SIPM_210828_007.JPG: People weren't real good at obeying the directional arrows
2. SIPM_210828_011.JPG: The stylus is a funky shape because it needs a hook for some of the drawers.
3. SIPM_210828_021.JPG: Return your stylus here. They will be sanitized for reuse.
4. SIPM_210828_029.JPG: Take precautions to protect yourself and others during your visit. Please pick up a stylus to use with our exhibits.
5. SIPM_210828_044.JPG: Charge your phone here.
6. SIPM_210828_058.JPG: Stay Safe Sanitize your hands here
7. SIPM_210828_065.JPG: Take Precautions to protect yourself and others during your visit * Maintain a safe social distance * Wear a face covering * Wash hands, sanitize and practice good hygiene
8. SIPM_210828_072.JPG: Deliver the Mail Be a letter carrier! Take the mail from the post office bin below and deliver it to all the different homes along your route. Different homes have different types of mailboxes. Which mailbox looks the most like the mailbox where you live? Have you seen any of the other types of mailboxes before?
9. SIPM_210828_079.JPG: Cluster mailboxes make it easier for a letter carrier to deliver mail to many homes at once. These are the newest type of mailbox, introduced in the 1960s.
10. SIPM_210828_090.JPG: Can you imagine carrying a different key for each individual mailbox in a big apartment building? Letter carriers today carry a master key that lets them open many boxes.
11. SIPM_210828_098.JPG: In 1923, the Post Office Department decided that every household must have a mailbox or letter slot so that letter carriers could deliver mail even if someone wasn't home.
12. SIPM_210828_105.JPG: Before mailbox design was standardized, people made their own boxes or repurposed containers like produce crates and old oil cans. What you you have at home you could use to receive mail?
13. SIPM_210828_113.JPG: Some people choose to have mail delivered directly inside their homes! A letter carrier can drop the mail through the slot at a home's front entry. This protects mail from theft and the weather.
14. SIPM_210828_117.JPG: Masked carriers.
15. SIPM_210828_132.JPG: Mamava Privacy for pumping or breastfeeding
16. SIPM_210828_135.JPG: Lockers are currently out of order. We apologize for any inconvenience. [All of Smithsonian museums except the ones at the Freer Gallery were closed due to COVID-19.]
17. SIPM_210828_139.JPG: Most of the Smithsonians added these industrial-sized paper towel dispensers since hand-dryers were discouraged during COVID-19.
18. SIPM_210828_143.JPG: To keep us all safe, we recommend filling our water bottle. Please wash hands, sanitize, and practice good hygience.
19. SIPM_210828_147.JPG: You don't see many payphones around these days.
20. SIPM_210828_154.JPG: Free Calls Get God's Blessings/Daily Prayer Need Help Finding a Job Social Security EBT Card Services Need a Credit Card Chase Bank Wells Fargo Bank of America 50 cent local calls
21. SIPM_210828_161.JPG: Stop the spread of COVID-19 Maximum 2 persons to use the lift at a time
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2021 photos: This year, which started with former child president's attempted coup and the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic, gradually got better. Trips this year: (May, October) After getting fully vaccinated, I made two trips down to Asheville, NC to visit my dad and his wife Dixie, and (mid-July) I made a quick trip up to Stockbridge, MA to see the Norman Rockwell Museum again as well as Daniel Chester French's place @ Chesterwood. Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: about 283,000, up slightly from 2020 levels but still really low.
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