ANTARCTIC POST OFFICE NOW HIRING

This story pops up every couple of years, and here it is again. The world’s southernmost post office, in Antarctica, is seeking three new employees to spend four months sorting mail and counting penguins. The post office is located at Britain’s Port Lockroy base on Goudier Island. It needs workers from November of this year until March 2025. The workers’ duties will include sorting through letters and postcards, selling stamps, running a small gift shop and keeping count of the local colony of about 1,500 penguins. The post office processes up to 80,000 letters and postcards each year, the majority of which are mailed out by passengers on cruise ships that stop at the island during the Southern Hemisphere’s summer. Applicants must be residents of the United Kingdom, and must be prepared to bunk with five other people, go long stretches without phone or Internet access, and make do without running water for the duration of their stay.
* Having your own snow shovel would also be a plus.
* On the bright side, the timing of this means you would miss the November election in the U.S.
* Sounds like a pretty easy job, like there’d be a lot of time to just chill.
* Why do they need three people? Don’t tell me there are lines at the Antarctica post office, though I wouldn’t doubt it.
* And why do these three people have to bunk with two other people? What are those two other people there for? Food?