# Do they still hang the President's pic in the Post Office? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 12, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247 "2021-11-12T15:08:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/1 "2021-11-12T15:08:56Z")
I could see Joyboy wanting to resist having Biden displayed. There was a California teacher removed (but not fired) from the classroom for preaching CFSG was still pres. Any student that question her could be taken to the P.O. and shown the portrait as proof, not unlike the bags of mail addressed to Santa in that movie. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/2 "2021-11-12T15:54:04Z")
Do they hang the president’s picture in the PO? No. Visit any PO and you will know that. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/3 "2021-11-12T15:54:49Z")
It’s specifically against USPS rules to display pictures of incumbent or former presidents, vice presidents, or postmasters on post office property, although there are cases where local POs were unaware of or ignored the rule. When Trump was President, a GOP bill was proposed to change the rule. Oddly, those efforts stopped when Biden became President. > **[GOP lawmaker introduces bill requiring pictures of Trump, Pence at post offices](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/386938-gop-lawmaker-introduces-bill-requiring-pictures-of-president-vp-at-post/)** > > Rep. Dan Donovan (R-N.Y.) introduced a bill on Tuesday that would require U.S Postal Service offices to hang pictures of President Trump and Vice President Pence, The Washington Examiner reported.D… ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/4 "2021-11-12T15:56:39Z")
Uh, if my P.O. didn’t hang it, it wouldn’t be much of a representative sample, would it? My P.O. could be an outlier. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/5 "2021-11-12T16:01:09Z")
I’m wondering when that practice was actually a thing. There are so many movies where Hitler’s portrait is on the wall in every interior scene set in WWII Germany that the practice is likely distasteful to all but the most fascistic Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/6 "2021-11-12T16:11:30Z")
I honestly thought it was a thing. I rarely visit the Post Office. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/7 "2021-11-12T18:24:41Z")
Does the Post Office still post the FBI’s most wanted list pictures? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/8 "2021-11-12T20:52:25Z")
A few careers ago, I worked closely with the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs, and am still friendly with a lot of my contacts. I can say that the President, Vice President and Secretary of HUD have pictures in the lobby of the local branch, and are swapped out on Inauguration Day. My guess is that other federal offices are similar. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/9 "2021-11-12T20:59:35Z")
If the previous incumbent were to be indicted, and take it on the lam, and make onto the most wanted list, could they hang his picture in the Post Office then? I can dream. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/10 "2021-11-12T21:14:24Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > My guess is that other federal offices are similar. Certainly just about every DOD facility I have ever been in has a POTUS picture in the lobby as part of the Chain of Command for the installation. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/11 "2021-11-12T21:42:47Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Does the Post Office still post the FBI’s most wanted list pictures? Yeah…at least until Trump is on it. That would be against the rules. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/12 "2021-11-12T21:54:06Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Yeah…at least until Trump is on it. That would be against the rules. Yeah, well, I’m quite sure the FBI knows where he is 24/7. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/13 "2021-11-12T22:23:15Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I’m wondering when that practice was actually a thing Probably was the case when the Post Office was an actual part of the Cabinet (changed to the current pseudo-state corporation in 1970) Usually the POTUS pic shows up, if at all, at the office of agencies that have a direct chain-of-command to him. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/14 "2021-11-13T16:44:30Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > CFSG ??? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/15 "2021-11-13T16:46:35Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > ??? Sorry, what I should have said was TFG. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/16 "2021-11-13T16:47:49Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > ??? An acronym of an insulting name for Trump; it was used here fairly frequently during his presidency: Cheeto-Faced ShitGibbon ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/17 "2021-11-13T16:53:02Z")
I’m always open to newer, more descriptive acronyms. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/18 "2021-11-13T22:10:32Z")
British POs don’t generally have a picture of the Queen on display. Of course, you can easily buy one for the price of a stamp. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-hang-the-presidents-pic-in-the-post-office/954247/19 "2021-11-14T20:11:34Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Certainly just about every DOD facility I have ever been in has a POTUS picture in the lobby as part of the Chain of Command for the installation. Same with federal courthouses.