{"id":1852,"date":"2013-04-24T09:40:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T13:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2018-09-22T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T14:39:50","slug":"general-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/24\/general-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"General Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those few of you who have sent us mail recently know that our mailing address is General Delivery, Aguanga, CA.  I have never had a General Delivery address before, but it makes me feel like I am living in Mayberry.  General Delivery may not be the same as Rural Free Delivery (RFD), which is the kind of mail service Mayberry had, but I can&#8217;t tell you the difference.<\/p>\n<p>I thought you might want to know what a General Delivery post office looks like, so here it is:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1853\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-20-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-20-004-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2013-04-20 004\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-20-004-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-20-004-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-20-004-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-20-004-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aguanga, CA, 92536<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To get my two or three pieces of mail each week, I walk into this building (most of which is PO boxes and storage) and ask the postal clerk if any mail is waiting for me.  Very quaint.  I had to provide ID the first time, but after that she remembered me.<\/p>\n<p>Next to the post office is the Aguanga General Store, which I have mentioned before.  These two buildings comprise the &#8220;town&#8221; that is Aguanga.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1854\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-20-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1854\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-20-006-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2013-04-20 006\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-20-006-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-20-006-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-20-006-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-20-006-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aguanga General Store<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those few of you who have sent us mail recently know that our mailing address is General Delivery, Aguanga, CA. I have never had a General Delivery address before, but it makes me feel like I am living in Mayberry. General Delivery may not be the same as Rural Free Delivery (RFD), which is the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/24\/general-delivery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places-ca","category-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-tS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6697,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/6697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}