Looking for a change in scenery? Try landing a job at the southernmost post office in the world. An Antarctica post office is seeking three employees to spend four months sorting mail and counting penguins at its “penguin post office.”
U.K. Antarctic Heritage Trust, the organization that runs the penguin post office at Britain’s Port Lockroy base on Goudier Island, Antarctica, said it’s looking to hire three people to staff the post office from November 2024 until March 2025.
The workers’ duties line up with typical post office tasks like sorting through letters and postcards, selling postage stamps and running a small gift shop. A more unusual responsibility is to keep count of Port Lockroy’s colony of around 1,500 gentoo penguins.
The available positions are base leader, general assistant and shop manager and applicants must be residents of the United Kingdom to apply. Anyone interested must be prepared to bunk with five other people, go long stretches without phone or Internet access and go without running water for most of their stay.
The post office processes up to 80,000 letters and postcards each year, the majority of which are mailed out by passengers on cruise ships that stop at the island during the Southern Hemisphere’s summer.