When was the last time you made friends with a complete stranger?

Not a person you met through mutual friends, and honestly I don't even think online dating

counts, because in that case at least you know a little bit about the person what they

look like, some movie quote that represents their personality, but in this case I'm talking

about a complete stranger.

A person who you would not have met in any other way, except for this instance of strange

ineffable chance, something you could call maybe fate.

Well there's one place in the world that orchestrates meetings like this on a regular basis.

To get there you're going to have to travel 500 nautical miles from the nearest landmass,

because it's way out on an island, and it's not the kind of place you might expect to

make a new friend.

It's a post office.

I'm Dylan Therese and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible

and wondrous places, and today we're taking you to post office bay on the Galapagos

Islands.

It's a post office where stamps mean nothing, because this post office is run completely

unlock, and the goodwill of the people who happen to visit.

More after this.

You never get to be in a place where I guess they don't see that many humans by the

animal.

This is Chris Achen.

She's a writer based in Taipei, Taiwan, and she's worked with Atlas Obscura before, which

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