Written by: Erin Bakker I love a good Christmas present. I also love a present that refuses to be over just because Christmas morning is. That is why we think The Post Room makes such a good gift. Instead of another object someone has to find a place for, you are giving them something to look forward to. Mail. Real mail. With their name on it. Imagine this You give someone a Post Room subscription for Christmas. January comes. The tree is gone. The lights are down. Everyone

Written by: Erin Bakker I think we may have accidentally made everything too efficient. We can send a message in three seconds. Order something without leaving the couch. Take 200 photographs and never print a single one. Convenient? Absolutely. But I am not convinced convenient is always better. There is still something wonderfully inefficient about mail. Someone has to choose the paper. Write the note. Find the stamp. Put it in a mailbox. Then the envelope has to physically

Written by: Erin Bakker There is something about opening the mailbox and finding something that was actually meant for you. Not a bill. Not a coupon. Not another piece of junk mail. Something happy. That was really the beginning of The Post Room. We spend so much of our lives looking at screens now. Invitations arrive by text. Birthday wishes show up in notifications. Photographs live in camera rolls we rarely look through. Even the things meant to make us feel connected can

Written by: Erin Bakker Every respectable mailroom needs leadership. Ours has HG and Barkley. HG is ten. Barkley is a white Labrador. This arrangement makes perfect sense to us. HG HG has always been creative. She makes things. Collects things. Gets ideas. Changes her mind. Makes something completely different. She is exactly the kind of person The Post Room is for. One rainy Sunday recently, she invited a few friends over and started a Collage Club. There was no major plan.