National Postal Museum

We went to the National Postal Museum this afternoon. We first went through security check, then downstairs to see the exhibits. The center exhibit, called ‘Moving The Mail’ showed life-size vehicles used to deliver mail in the past – a stagecoach, a train, a truck, an airplane, and delivery vehicles. There was a gallery of rare stamps from every country in the world, and a section on federal security with mail. The kids liked the truck and train the most – they got to move around and explore in both. They also enjoyed playing games on the computers and using a postcard machine that personalized cards.

The boys pose outside the National Postal Museum building At the upper level of the National Postal Museum The boys pretend to drive a truck The boys inside a mail train car Sitting in a stagecoach Mailboxes from around the world Statue of Ben Franklin (first Postmaster General in 1775)