Liverpool Post Office & Postal Inspector (1:17)

The boxes from the 1886 Liverpool Post Office are on loan from the Brazoria County Historical Museum.  They were originally located in a home and were moved whenever the post office moved. Notice the small mail slot. The post office only sent letters, anything larger was sent by Wells Fargo or Railway Express.

Look up and to your left. You will see the postal inspector’s catwalk at the ceiling with a cut out showing the inspector looking through a small window. The postal inspector had his own entrance to the catwalk off of the alley. Other employees were not allowed to go up there except to clean. Look along the upper portion of the wall in front of you and you will see a series of small windows. He could look out of the windows to see what the employees were doing. If they were directly below him he could get on his hands and knees and look through holes in the floor to see what they were doing. The floor had cork to deaden his steps so no one knew if he was there watching. The “new” Alvin post office built in 1986 has the same thing.