Supervised by Debbie Almy for the past 23 years, the post office gift shop offers a variety of clothing and household items. The whole family can be outfitted (sizes run from child through adult) in windbreaker/fleece jackets, sweatshirts, t-shirts, and assorted hats and caps.  For-the-home gifts include glassware, kitchen crocks, cheese boards, holiday ornaments, flashlights, outdoor thermometers and umbrellas. And so much more!

For the past five years, Laurie Fogel and Martina Ross have assisted Debbie in managing the shop.

Congratulations to Debbie Almy for managing the Post Office for 22 years!

Post Office Summer Hours:

8:30 to 12:30pm
Monday through Saturday

Post office opens for season on Monday, June 24th!

The Post Office in Craigville was established in 1872 along with a general store, and many cottages and tents. The tiny Post Office fulfilled its function from the beginning by receiving mail from Centerville in the “pullover”. This boat was a long boat, square at both ends, run by a rope between stakes on two shores. Fitted with two seats the fare was 2 cents each way. It was an awkward vehicle which indeed was much slower than the pony express. The mail then had to be carried overland following the footpath over Christian Hill. Finally the mail was deposited on a shelf near the postal window. Mr Luther Broad lovingly known as Uncle Broad, would hold the letters up and call out names to the throngs awaiting. Uncle Broad was also an accomplished violinist and would often thrill the locals with concerts given either in the Post Office or in the Harvard House.

Click here to read about Luther “Uncle” Broad, Craigville’s first postmaster.

Click here to read about John Bearse - For forty years he had a passenger service between Hyannis and Craigville also carrying mail for the Craigville summer Post Office.

Over the many years since early times, the Post Office has continued with many long time postmistresses. Uncle Broads’s niece Miss Aldrich became postmistress followed by Susan Beaumont and Elizabeth Frazier. Modernization finally shut down the Post Office as a legal tender of mail, yet there is still a post person in charge of selling memorabilia of Craigville Village. As time passes and new faces and names come into the village, this old Post Office will always be there to remind us all of what an integral part of everyone’s life it was and will continue to be in the future.