Delightful small museum! The staff was engaged and informative. The museum provided unique perspective on Arizona history and the impact of the postal service. Loved all the stamps as well. What a great resource!

New friends Robyn and Lief told us about the Postal History Foundation. My wife was a philatelist as a child and through the early years of our marriage. A stop at the Postal HIstory Foundation was a real delight. The volunteers were tremendously helpful and accomodating; we saw the history of postal machines including a postal station kit that was ordered and shipped to Naco, AZ in the late 1800s. The kit was setup inside the Wells Fargo Stage Coach office to aid in the delivery of mail in that region. When the Wells Fargo building was demolished, the foundation was able to retrieve the kit/office! The volunteers serve teachers and schools around the world by creating lesson plans and providing postal supplies including stamps for students to use in learning about history, geography, science and any other subject contained in stamps. (We were given a collection of stamps with mountain lions on them to share with a friend/potographer who has yet to see one in the wild. He was touched.

What a nice surprise, to find this in our own town. The Postal Museum has a very large collection of world stamps. In addition t history, their goal is education. They have a staff member who goes to the school to teach about stamps. In addition they have school field trips with to learn about stamps and how the Postal Service grew through t the years. The tour begins with an actual old post office used in the general stores or other locations. The kit were purchased at Wards and Sears in kit form and assembled at the sore location. inside the store they the old hand operated hand postmark and stamp canceling machine. They also had a complete rubber stamp collection that was used in the early days. In the education room they showed the different lesson plans for the children to complete with the right stamp domestic or global, like it was a geography lesson. They also have a coloring contest with the kids can design their own stamp and after judging the winner is announced and the winner art work is posted on a board with a blue ribbon. They have also placed small treasure chest covered with stamps in the museum around the city. The children are invited to open the chest and get the stamps they want, at no cost. To our surprise they also have a library which has a large stamp collection that was give to the library by a donor along with her book collection. They have books back to the civil war.Also many book from all the states. The librarian said the a lot of genealogist are do family research using the books. It is a great location for the stamp collector as well as everyone else. Stamps are also available for purchase. On parking, park behind the building. If you park on the street, park in the space with the yellow paint, or as the secretary said yo will receive an invitation to the policeman's s ball!! I highly recommend it for everyone and families. There is no admission fee to visit.

Life long (58 years) of collecting and sharing the benefits of each stamp with others and have found the postal history Foundation a rewarding destination for any stamp collector young or old, beginner to advanced like myself. The Postal History Foundation is gold mine of information. The Foundations' program of providing teachers with lessen plans together with all the stamps needed to complete each lessen. They only need to know how many will be in each class, teachers only need to write or call providing the subject & number attending each class, lessen plans are free & mailed at no cost. The subjects & students of the world

A very friendly Docent, who knows the history of Tucson and works as a volunteer at the History Foundation, showed me around and explained the various machines needed at the post office over the years, the transition of mail delivery from the time mules and horses were used until today's hi-tech application. I felt like a kid on a field trip. He also took a picture of me wearing the postmaster's hat. After showing me around the post office, we went to the Slusser Memorial Library located in the building behind the post office. The main room as you enter the building has several paintings related to various robberies over the years. Another rather large room, where the library is located, is open to the members. Next to the library is a room for school children, where they learn about the postal system, displaying their drawings or just enjoy looking at various stamps. There are souvenirs on display in the gift shop. The volunteers are so friendly and helpful. You can tell that they enjoy working here and with each other. Thanks to the work of these dedicated volunteers and the school children, this Postal History Foundation will be around for a long, long time to come. I highly recommend this place for both visitors and locals, old and young.