1871-1885 The first location of the Perkasie Post Office was at the Northwest corner of Front Street and Railroad Avenue (now 4 Seventh St.- Seventh & Market Streets) in the general store of Joseph A Hendricks. The first postmaster of the new Post Office for the village of Perkasie, Bucks County PA was Joseph A. Hendricks, effective July 25, 1871; he was appointed by U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant.

1885-1889 With a change in administration as a result of the 1884 national election, U.S. President Cleveland appointed Grier Sheetz as postmaster on September 7, 1885. The second post office was located in the Grand Bizarre Store at 9 N. Seventh Street owned by Grier Scheetz on the first two floors of the Cressman building at Front St & Lumber Avenue ( now a parking lot at Seventh St. & the alley between Market & Arch Streets). A separate room for the office had several hundred new lock and glass boxes for mail distribution..

1889-1897 The office and equipment were moved to the first floor of the Central News Building on Main Street at ( now 609 Chestnut Street) when President Harrison appointed Henry F. Groff postmaster (employee of the Central News) on May 15, 1889. The building was demolished by a gas explosion in 1926 several years after the Central News had moved to a new building at 106 North Seventh Street (near Arch St). U.S. President Cleveland appointed Hon. John Schwartz (former State Senator) postmaster effective July 23, 1893 with the Perkasie Post Office remaining in the Central News Building until August 2, 1895.

A larger facility was needed. In 1894 when Joseph G. Moyer made plans in 1894 to build a new three-story building at Seventh & Market Streets, a portion of the first floor was to be leased for post office purposes. On August 3, 1895 the Post Office was relocated at the West end of the newly constructed three-story J.G. Moyer building on the northeast corner of Seventh and Market Streets (now the site of the Bucks County District Court Building). New letter boxes, fitted with non-duplicated keys were provided and special facilities also provided for the handling of money orders and registered letters.

On May 15, 1899 the village of Bridgetown (presently South Perkasie) was annexed to Perkasie. At that time Perkasie had both a second fire company and a second post office known as Benjamin, PA. The Benjamin Post Office operated from 1887 until it closed on July 31, 1917.

On September 1, 1902, Rural Delivery Service (then known as Rural Free Delivery) was started from the Perkasie Post Office. Four routes delivered mail to the surrounding countryside to portions of East Rockhill, Hilltown and Bedminster Townships). The Ridge Post Office (located at the Elephant Hotel & Store) was discontinued and service was provided through Perkasie delivery service. Delivery men used their own transportation (horseback, horse and buggy, team of horses and wagon, or sleigh. By 1916 all rural carriers were delivering mail by auto.

Mail arrived in Perkasie by train or stagecoach. An enlarged second-class post office beginning on July 1, 1916 and the post office was open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Delivery of Perkasie village mail began on August 1, 1917 with two carrier making two deliveries per day, six days a week to the three wards of the Borough. The Benjamin Post Office closed in 1917. In 1923 City Delivery service was established in lieu of the Farmer Village Delivery Service; all property owners were required to provide house numbers, mail boxes, or mail slots for receipt of mail.

1924 -1959

In 1924 the Perkasie Improvement Company at 21 N. Seventh Street (Seventh and Arch Streets) was constructed to accommodate the specifications of the post office (940 square feet compared to 750 square feet). More than 1500 square feet was the final size with 200 new combination lock boxes, and a separate department for rural carriers to prepare their mail for delivery.

In 1924 Perkasie residents voted to give letter carriers a half-holiday on Saturdays.

On May 20, 1927 Parcel Post delivery service was begun. All parcels were delivered instead of only small sizes.

In 1927, he first electrically operated canceling machine was received from the P.O. Department..

Patrons on their way to the Perkasie Post Office.		Postal carriers take off to make deliveries.
Two girls on their way to the Perkasie Post Office.		Mail delivery truck being loaded.
Rural delivery man loading car.		Rural delivery man loading car.

On July 1, 1948 the Perkasie Post Office obtained First Class status due to receipts of $40,000 & over annually.

Cutback service from two deliveries a day to one delivery a day started in May 1950.

The continued need of space and post office business required additional space for the post office and during 1951 and 1952 the post office was remodeled and enlarged.

On December 15, 1955 the Weisel Post Office was closed and all business and customers were transferred to Perkasie delivery.

1959 - Present

Space continued to be a problem and loading and unloading requirements created the need for a new building. On September 19, 1959 the Perkasie Post Office was moved to its present location at Seventh and Vine Streets with a total of 18 employees.

On July 1, 1963 zip code mail sorting and distribution starting, all outgoing and incoming mail via Reading Railroad (Philadelphia and Bethlehem) was discontinued. All mail moved by trucks from Philadelphia and Doylestown.

On November 13, 1966 burglars entered the Perkasie Post Office by the rear platform, opened two safes, and were frightened away by Joseph Atkinson of the Perkasie Police, who was doing a routine check. The burglars left a hamper with stamps and cash valued at $37,000 on the sidewalk.

In 1972 the area mail processing center in King of Prussia, PA was established and mail was trucked in and out of that facility to the local post office. The facility also canceled letters and machine operators sorted letters by zip code on letter sorting machines at the sectional Center Headquarters.

In 1975 all foot carriers were furnished a 1/4 ton vehicle to use to deliver mail on their route (letters, papers, magazines, and parcel post). Perkasie delivery routes were increased from the original two foot routes in 1917 to six in 1975. There are still three rural routes.

The cost of a first class letter increased from 13 to 15 cents in May of 1978. The penny post card now cost 10 cents.

Experimented in 1978 and introduced formally in 1983, the zip + 4 code added a hyphen and four digits to the existing five digit zip code in the United States. In 1981 the price of a first class letter increased to 18 cents in May. It again increased in November of 1981 to 20 cents. In 1982 the first computer driven machine was used by the Postal Service. During the mid-1980's new automation equipment impacted the office due to an increase of mail (none of these machines were in Perkasie). The Perkasie Post Office by 1981 had 7 city routes and 4 rural routes. By 1987 the city routes increased to eight and the rural routes were still four in number.

In 1992 the entire Postal Fleet changed as jeeps were replaced by long life vehicles with 50% larger capacity to carry more mail at one time.

Between 1992 and 1995 the city routes increased to ten and the rural routes to six.

A major change was the use of the Delivery Point Sequencer that involves the use of CSBCS (Customer Service Bar Code Sorter) that puts 70% of the mail into delivery sequence. The machine for our area is located in Quakertown. The machine increases productivity and allows the Postal Service to keep costs down.

In 1997 the Perkasie Post Office employed 33 people and saw the removal of the last two postal jeeps; the vehicles were replaced by Ford Winstar minivans. In 2000 there are 35 staff members.

On 1/10/1999 first class postage increased from 32 cents to 33 cents. On 1/8/2001 first class postage increased from 33 cents to 34 cents. Postal cards remain at a 20 cent rate.

In the year 2000 there is one delivery per day from the Perkasie Post Office