Good Question Senor Caiman!

In case you do not read the comments people leave here (which are often better than the post), Senor Caiman asked if that little post office off Alligator Alley is still there.

And to that I say - what crack you be smoking? NOTHING is on Alligator Alley (AKA I-75).

However, there is the smallest post office in America, located on Tamiami Trail, or as some call it US Highway 41. In a backwater place known as Ochopee. Or as the locals call it "where?". It can be found 30 miles east of Naples. This is also 70 miles west of Miami. Right around the intersection of US 41 and Florida SR 29. In the Big Cypress National Preserve.

Here is the post office as it was way back before digital cameras and color film. I think this photo was taken in 1986 or something. Back when if your computer operated faster than 6 mhz you were a super big computer nerd and probably got a lot of atomic wedgies.

Anyway, the original post office was part of a larger general store. But the store burned down a long time ago. So the post office was moved to the tool shed that was behind the store. It was later moved closer to the road, and that sign you see on the roof was so people did not go in there to crap, thinking it was an out house. It measures 7x8 feet. Actually 7 feet three inches x 8 feet four inches. Here is what the place looks like today.

Yes, this is a fully functional post office. Old school. I think the postage scales are not electronic, and everything is hand stamped. There is only one employee.

And here is the coolest part. UNLESS a friggin tour bus full of idiots who have never seen a post office is there, you are in and out of this place quickly.