The first mailman of Mykines was Jacob Jacobsen Lowe, called Jakup j Lodo.

Even though the most ancient document in the postal archive dates back to 12 December 1912 (it is a letter from Jacob Lowe to the manager Johann Danielsen), the history of postal service dates far more back.

At Thorshavn Post Office today works Marita Jacobsen, Jacob Jaconbsen’s niece. Marita owns a great number of documents regarding the postal history of Mykines, and the most ancient record, dated 18 June, 1903, is a letter addressed to her grandfather, “Mr. Jacob Jacobsen (Lowe), Trader, MYGGENAES”. The letter is signed “CC Danielsen”.

This document is former to the transformation of Torshavn Post Station into a main post office. This explains the name “Torshavn Post House” instead of “Post Office”, its next designation.

At that time, CC Danielsen was responsible only for the auxiliary Torshavn Post Office, and not for the district. In her letter to Jacob Jacobsen, CC Danielsen writes: “We inform you [Jacob Jacobsen] that you have been hired as manager for the auxiliary post office of MYGGENAES. You will have to observe the regulation, which we will soon send you via mail”.

In Marita Jacobsen’s documents we also find that, on 1 April 1920, the mail sorting office of Mykines became the collecting office, managed by Jacobsen Lowe with a contract starting from 23 April 1920.

Lowe died on 22 December 1955.

On 1 January 1956, the Post Office management and Jacob’s son Jisak Eli Meinhard Louis Jacobsen - called Eli i Lodu or Eli - stipulated a contract for the establishment of a mail collecting system in Mykines.

When Eli Jacobsen died, the position was taken by his widow, Maja Frida Jacobsen, who became, from 1 March 1972, the manager of the mail collecting office in Mykines, a position that she kept until 30 December 1972, when she left the island to stay at her daughter’s in Torshavn.

Herrid M. Joensen took Maja’s place from 1 October 1972 to 30 October 1978, and was later substituted by Jancy Hansen, who is still managing the office.

The quality of the post service in Mykines started a fiery debate, where the poor frequency of the maritime links with Sorvagur was harshly criticized. The people of Mykines wanted the fishing boats used for mail transportation to carry out three weekly trips instead of two, at least during the summer. On 21 March 1951 this request was officially presented by the City Council of Mykines to the Post Administration; the service would have been performed on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays during the summer (June, July and August).

Only five days later, 27 March, the answer was given: the manager informed the City Council that he would have forwarded the application to the PTT General Direction in Copenhagen, but, recalling the policy of financial austerity imposed by the Danish government, the manager concluded bluntly by saying that giving too much spotlight to the current frequency of the connections would have probably led the Government to reduce the number of connections instead of increasing it.

This debate brought an intense debate on the local newspapers and a voluminous correspondence between the manager in Torshavn and those in Mykines and Sorvagur. Finally, the inhabitants of Mykines prevailed, but it is impossible to state the exact date of this decision, for the Faeroese PTT archives are completely silent on this subject.

The Mail Collecting Office of Mykines would also operate for the lighthouse of the small Isle of Mykineholm. The lighthouse has been completely automatized in 1970, and today nobody lives in the small island anymore.

In 1983, a linking service with helicopters was set up, which considerably improved the post service between Mykines and the other islands of the archipelago.