Saturday was a routine day at Moon Post Office in Mathews County—unlike the scene at Moon 50 years earlier, July 20, 1969, when Americans landed on the Moon.

Then, nearly 1,000 letters poured into the post office, located at the time in a former country store. Postmaster Shirley Snow hand-stamped letters with the Moon cancellation, and then cancelled more, then more.

On the 50th anniversary of the landing, postal clerk Robert Epps raised the flag outside the post office, now in a newer building, and said it was “another day as usual” with no huge volume of mail and no special events planned.

Vernelle Robinson, postmaster at Mathews and six other county post offices (Hudgins, Moon, Onemo, Port Haywood, Susan and New Point), said Monday that no special event was organized, but that the United States Postal Service had issued a 50th anniversary Moon landing stamp on July 19 and that people wanting special Moon cancellations can mail moon-landing-stamped envelopes to t...