"I'm scared to death," said a postal worker at the back door of the main post office in Sacramento.
And where better on April 15 to talk about taxes than in front of the main post office?
In the ceiling of the lobby of the main post office on Eighth Avenue in Midtown, there is a huge pair of letters, "RF," in the mosaic.
After five minutes, and almost $15, the caller will have the addresses and phone numbers of the main post offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.
On the far right side of the Eighth Avenue facade of the main post office building, up near the parapet, the name of Cardinal de Richelieu is carved into the stone, along with other names and dates.
Two construction officials pleaded guilty yesterday in Federal District Court to taking bribes from a contractor working on the new federal courthouse and the renovation of the main post office in Downtown Brooklyn.
Most striking is the family's window on the world -- that 16-foot arch through which you can see the north side of the main post office and the untidy drama, as the urbanist Jane Jacobs might say, of the life on the street below.
For the enthusiast there is much to enjoy, from the European art-deco style of the main post office at 13th Street and Washington Avenue, with its modern austerity, to the pervasive 'Tropical' art deco, with its simple geometric forms and colours that work so beautifully with the harsh sunlight.
SO there he was, standing in front of the main post office on Eighth Avenue yesterday, a fellow in white pants, blue blazer and commodore's cap, looking like a young version of Thurston Howell III getting set for his star-crossed three-hour tour on "Gilligan's Island".
The results indicate that the stress in the main post and the thickness and diameter of the main post significantly affect the ultimate strength of the K-joints.
