In 1953 a building, that once was a tool shed, was converted into the post office after a fire destroyed the original Ochopee Post Office located in the Gaunt Company Store. The structure served as both the post office and the Trailways Bus Stop. Two local residents, Mr. Cail and Mr. Sidney Brown built shelves and cubby holes to hold the mail. Later that year, the Tamiami Trail was widened, the building was moved back on a wheel barrow to its current location.
The post office at Ochopee, Florida, the nation’s smallest, is a tiny place for its clerk. But it is said to be the coolest job in the world. There is a phone, a computer, an air conditioner, a fluorescent tube for light, and a pair of tiny sliding screen doors to keep out the 
giant horseflies. Everything that one needs is obviously within
reach. The job is quiet, as you might expect, although it is a regular stop on the south Florida tourist circuit. Tourists from all over the world stop by to get something postmarked, so there is a stack of Ochopee Post Office post cards on the counter, pre-stamped both domestic and international, for when the tour buses pull up.
Ochopee, which sits on the edge of the Everglades, and which reportedly has a population of 11, has been happy with it ever since.