64831 - Anderson, MO USA - U.S. Post Offices on Waymarking.com

I have both posted and visited a bunch of U.S. Post Offices waymarks, but this was the first one that I can recall where the powers that be did not bother to put the zip code on the building. Usually it is there in large letters, and typically in the same font as the town name, etc. Anyway, this is the Anderson post office.

At Christmas time it is not as busy handling outgoing mail as you might think. That's because many of the residents trek on over to the nearby post office at Noel (pronounced Noll, except during the month of December -- I kid you not!), Missouri to have their letters stamped with Noel. This is actually a common practice in Southwest Missouri. Anderson is the largest city in McDonald County. It was the boyhood home (but not birthplace) of movie and television character actor Dabbs Greer, who is buried in Peace Valley Cemetery just north of Anderson. (He was born in the tiny town of Fairview in Newton County.)

The post office building is stand-alone and faced with brick. According to a sign affixed to it, it was erected by Metropolitan Construction Company of Kansas City, MO; but no date is given.

Type of structure:: Stand alone re-enter Zip Code here:: 64831 Current Status:: Still in Use

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Date Logged Log User Rating   01/24/2016 MountainWoods visited it