Record Of Closing Post Offices

His name is Evan Kalish and he has travelled across the country documenting post offices. A very nice news cast story. Link follows.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-...ices/3763838

Also he has a blog that you can see many of these post offices here.
http://colossus-of-roads.blogspot.com/

His facebook page with stories.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Going...4685?sk=info

I've seen that website before. Very interesting take on post office closings around the US.

Back in the 1950's when post offices were known to close, the Postmaster would accommodate philatelic requests to cancel covers with the "last day of use" postmark such as in this Massachusetts example (taken from Buck-a-Cover's website):



It seems a shame the USPS isn't promoting similar philatelic offerings for the current round of USPS closings, although with the sporadic closings and the community protests going on to "fight" for certain post offices to stay open, the actual date of closing can be very fluid, so maybe that has something to do with it.

I would still find it interesting to acquire some Last Day of Use postmarks. Anyone have ideas as to how to best approach a post office with such a request?

I would think that when one finds out the date of closure, one could write a nice letter to the postmaster of said PO and ask for a cancel on the last day. Most small PO postmasters would do such a request. If one doesn't know when the closure might happen, again, a letter to the postmaster, nicely asking for information about the pending closure and if he/she would do a cover request for a cancel.

Interesting but sad..