Note the bald eagle over the entrance of the Miami Beach Post Office ...
... and the fountain and Seminole Wars mural in the rotunda.
The Miami Beach Post Office, located at 1300 Washington Avenue, is on the National Historic Register and is a "must see" for South Beach tourists.
This 1937 art deco building was constructed thanks to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA), which supported unemployed artists during the Great Depression. It is a Depression modern building in the "stripped classic" style. In the 1970s, it was the first South Beach renovation project.
There's a cement bald eagle above the front door entrance. Inside the lobby rotunda is a restored painted paper ceiling of a sun dial and a large wall mural of the Seminole Wars.
Today the Miami Beach Post Office is home to the Postmaster, 10 clerks, two supervisors, and four transitional employees. There are 42 letter carriers (16 of which ride bicycles!) who deliver city routes, plus three relay/Parcel Post routes. There are 32,855 possible deliveries every day.
"The most unique delivery is a single route serving Fisher Island, which has its own ZIP Code," said Postmaster Hal Paldrmann. "Our carrier takes the ferry to and from the island to provide service to the 713 deliveries in a mail room. All mail, including Express Mail, signature mail, and parcels, receive service from this location."
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