Photo by James Calder

DCist contributor James Calder reports from his morning trek for bagels at Dupont Market on 18th Street this morning: as per his usual routine, James stopped on the way back home at the corner of 18th and T to grab an Express. But as you can see in the above the photo, the box was missing, along with the Washington Post box. A third box had also been spirited away, but he couldn’t be sure to which publication it belonged.

We had been expecting newspaper boxes, mail boxes and metal garbage cans to be removed along the parade route and at certain locations inside the boundaries of Inauguration Island, but not on the edge of Dupont. I also spotted the remnants of a removed garbage can, pictured below, on Rhode Island Ave. NW near 10th Street NW, in Shaw, yesterday.