Curiouser and Curiouser: Yes, You Can Send and Receive Mail at Burning Man in 2024! Here’s How! PS Please write me!

• They pick up mail (postcards, letters and small packages) several times during build week and burn week from a PO Box in Gerlach and deliver as best they can to anywhere on the playa even making multiple attempts, but they CANNOT GUARANTEE delivery.
• After the event, they return anything that has a return address, and post about the rest on the Facebook page.
• Please understand that they are not postal employees, nor connected in any way with the USPS, beyond renting a PO Box. Once something has been delivered to the PO Box, the USPS has done their job. Please do not file complaints with them unless the tracking shows it never reached the BRC box.
• Address:
  Name of Recipient (both real name and playa name is best)
  Camp Name (or if in a village, include both village and camp names)
  Camp Address (e.g. 2:31 and E, mountain-side – be as specific as you can*)
  c/o BRC3PO (or c/o BRCPO9)
  PO BOX 265
  Gerlach NV 89412
• You must include the C/O (care of) or the postmaster will reject the mail.
• Be as specific as possible with the BRC address, especially for a camp that is not placed or will not have a big sign identifying it. For example, use “man-side” or “mountain-side” (if you know or can find out) to designate which side of the lettered street it is on. If it is on a corner, also use 2:31 or 2:29 to designate which side of the numbered street it is on (if you know or can find out). You can also use other identifying information, like “under the big pink parachute”, or “serves hot dogs and kombucha every afternoon”.
• If it is something you want delivered during build week (the week before Burning Man officially opens), if possible, let them know which day you want it delivered.
• If it is something that may arrive during build week (or earlier), but the recipient won’t be arriving until after Burning Man opens, indicate near the address to hold it until after the date of arrival.
  
  A few other important points regarding mail:

• Please include a return address in case the recipient isn’t where you expected, left early, forgot their name, etc.

• Do NOT send drugs, no matter where they are legal. Assume all packages are drug-sniffed.
• Do NOT send signature confirmation packages.
• Do NOT try to send your camp supplies to build your camp. Small packages, letters and postcards only as mail is delivered by bikes and the Gerlach PO does not have room. It needs to fit in a milk crate, otherwise it may be returned to sender.
• Do make someone’s burn even brighter by sending some love through the mail!
• Gerlach PO will only hold packages for two weeks. If it has a tracking number, the computer system requires return in two weeks after receiving it if it is not picked up.
• If it is Priority Mail Express, they can only hold it for 5 days. For any letters and postcards, they can send it early if they wish and they will hold onto them for you.

“While we’re not a “real” post office,” says BRC3PO on their website, “we did send around 8,000 pieces of mail to the outside world in 2023, along with delivering hundreds (or maybe thousands—we lost count) of postcards, letters, and packages within Black Rock City itself!”

In 2018, BRC3PO collected stats and created this infographic:

BRC3PO 2018 stats