There is a long standing tradition of children, and sometimes adults, jumping off of the Mail Dock pilings as the Mail Boat leaves. A color picture of this was on the front page of the Boston Globe several years ago.
Jumping off the Post Office roof has also been done for at least the 22 years I have been there. However it is getting to be a problem. Boats stop at the Mail Dock all hours of the day so their teenagers can jump off the roof. What was five or ten jumps per day is now in the hundreds. We even have the problem of night beer parties on the roof with cans left on the Mail Dock.
The foot traffic and process of climbing onto the roof is cracking and dislodging roof shingles and the roof is now leaking.
The Post Office is a historic building that needs to be protected.
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