This film, one in a seemingly endless series of films made by American Mutoscope & Biograph for the United States Post Office, stands out by virtue of the fact that it comes across as a little slice of Americana circa 1903. We have white picket fences in front of which a hen slowly struts as the film opens and a housewife in a long dress and white bonnet coming out to buy stamps from a bow-tied postman who has delivered a letter to her mailbox. Each of these real-life characters smiles at the camera as they go about their business and, judging by the way the postman pauses before swinging shut the rear door of his wagon, might have been following some rudimentary direction from the man behind the camera.