I’m Evan Kalish. I’ve photographed more than 12,000 U.S. post offices and I construct crossword puzzles.
I’ve visited post offices in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
My photo journal of post offices and the places around them. Featured on NPR and the BBC.
Read PostlandiaI curate the club’s online collection of more than 35,000 post office photographs, the largest of its kind.
Browse the archiveI’ve contributed more than 6,500 New Deal projects, especially post offices and their murals.
Explore the mapMy crosswords have run in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Universal Crossword, among other venues. I’ve also contributed several listener challenges to NPR’s Sunday Puzzle.
Daily and Variety puzzles
Evan's constructor page on XWordInfoCBS Mornings, with Tony Dokoupil · 2022
With post office closures, small towns feel loss of communityBook, featured in the prologue and epilogue · 2016
Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service, by Devin LeonardABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) · 2012
Post offices reach the end of the road in the U.S.BBC News · 2011
America’s disappearing post officesThe Washington Post · 2011
In a post-postal world, Christmas still deliversPenn Current · 2011
Student ‘goes postal’ to chronicle American lifeNPR, All Things Considered · 2011
‘Going Postal’ Blogger Memorializes Post OfficesTIME · 2011
How the U.S. Postal Service Fell ApartThe Washington Post · 2011
The Post Office Chronicler