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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:58 PM Feb 2015

Antarctica post office seeking job applicants who can dodge 'smelly penguins,' live without showers

http://news.yahoo.com/antarctica-post-office-job-port-lockroy-application-190236612.html

Are you in good shape? Able to carry a big, heavy box over slippery rocks and slushy snow? Happy not to shower for up to a month, live in close proximity to three people and 2,000 smelly penguins for five months with no power, heat or hot water and limited communications on a small island off the coast of Antarctica?

If so, we have the job for you!

The U.K. Antarctic Heritage Trust is looking for assistants to help run its post office museum and gift shop at Port Lockroy, located on Goudier Island off the Antarctic Peninsula.

Applications are currently being accepted for up to four full-time seasonal positions at the world's southernmost post office, which is visited each summer (November through March) by 18,000 people — who come by boat twice a day — and processes about 70,000 pieces of mail. Applications are due on Feb. 27.


The penguin on top of your television set is about to smell!
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Antarctica post office seeking job applicants who can dodge 'smelly penguins,' live without showers (Original Post) KamaAina Feb 2015 OP
I watched a PBS show about this Penguin Post Office just a few weeks ago. Arkansas Granny Feb 2015 #1
If only I were a few years younger, I'd apply. sinkingfeeling Feb 2015 #2
there are so many good things I would do dolphinsandtuna Feb 2015 #3
Not for $1,250 a month. Hell no. nt ohnoyoudidnt Feb 2015 #4
so what do penguins smell like? irisblue Feb 2015 #5
According to this natty penguin, hifiguy Feb 2015 #6
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