US Post Office

As a park employee who works late Wed-​Fri, I’m disappointed in the Yosemite Village Post Office, trying to strong arm employees into buying a PO Box by no longer checking General Delivery on Saturdays. The office was empty, and it would’ve taken the employee less time to check my mail than to explain to me that they didn’t check General Delivery on Saturdays. I will no longer ship or choose USPS to receive packages when I have a choice.

There’s actually another post office in Yosemite the previous reviewer forgot, the one in Tuolumne Meadows. But this is the main one. It’s where alot of the employees have their PO Boxes and stuff. The one bummer is this branch along with alot if not all I’ve been to recently took out their automated vending machines. Which sucks if your there on a weekend or holiday and need stamps since the stores don’t carry stamps. Weird considering the amount of post cards for sale in Yosemite.

There are 3 post-​offices in Yosemite National Park.
One is next to the Ahwahnee Hotel and this one is in a cabin close to the Yosemite Lodge reservation. I still send postcards during my travels to a couple of friends and I have a collection of postcards I’ve received from them over the years, from all over the world. I thought it would be so hard to find a post office in a national park but after walking out of our room I spotted this tiny cabin post office. It was initially closed when I strolled over to look in the early evening hours. Inside, they have a glass enclosure with various sized postcards and stamp rates of what it would cost to mail continentally and internationally. There are PO boxes inside and it’s quite small, has a claustrophobic feel to it.
After making my postcard purchases, I returned the next day to send them off. The postal worker had a bad case of laryngitis but gave me my stamps, (28 cents to mail in the U.S. for a standard 3×5 postcard, by the way) and put his hand out to accept the card after I attached the stamp. What a nice guy. He’s like a stamp in the box and was probably so happy to have a close encounter with a human being!