Photo of the Week: The J.W. Westcott Company

Gray brick office building of The J.W. Westcott Co. Detroit River Station, with bright red door and chain link fence around part of the building. Blue sky with fluffy white clouds in the background.

Tucked on a street east of Riverside Park in southwest Detroit, on the bank of the Detroit River south of the Ambassador Bridge, you’ll find the small gray building of The J.W. Westcott Company.

If you’re not familiar, the company is known for its official U.S. Postal Service mail boat, a floating post office with its own zip code: 48222.

The world’s first non-military floating postal zip code.

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