The post office, tested whole

The searches of November 2026 described in the pass note; the postal record classes at the strengths stated — the negative below is a search-strength negative and prints at that strength

No post office at this Indian Village was reached in any carrier. The question matters because the town's populated-place record in the national place-names file (GNIS 452637, map name South Bend East) is a place record, not a postal one — nothing in either of the town's two GNIS records asserts a post office, and this section's own caution prints that such a point "might be a post office, the city hall or simply an intersection." The searches run — the town with the county's postal history; the town against the postal dates the name attracts; the place-names sweep for any post-office-class feature at the town's point — returned no St. Joseph County office of this name. The only "Indian Village" post office in Indiana the searches reached belongs to the Noble County namesake: "A post office was established at Indian Village in 1867, and remained in operation until 1888" — the reservation community of the Miami chief Papakeecha, quarantined on its own ground in the frame pass and quarantined again here; any future hit carrying those dates is that office unless a carrier ties it to St. Joseph County by name.

The record classes that could settle the question at full strength stand unexecuted or unreached, and the negative does not rest on them: the standard carrier, Jim Forte Postal History's page for this county, exists — the county's other places cite it for their offices' dates — but its text was not returned by any search and no address for it was constructed; the Postmaster Finder's county query was opened and returned its empty form only, an interactive tool a text pass cannot submit (and one whose own page warns that "many discontinued Post Offices are not listed," so even a blank there would corroborate, not settle); and Baker's Postal History of Indiana (1976) with the State Library's post-office card file stands unread in print. The three stand as named gaps G3-6, G3-7 and G3-8. The town's mail course, as the record gives it, corroborates the negative at directory strength: the county places table lists the town with no ZIP of its own ("mail there is delivered under the nearest incorporated town's code"); the town government's own address is P.O. Box 6472, South Bend, IN 46660 — a box at a South Bend office, in a post-office-box-only ZIP; and the town's homes are delivered under the South Bend ZIP 46637, on three agreeing directory carriers (moderate strength; the postal ZIP lookup itself is an interactive tool and was not run). The nearest post-office feature in the place-names sweep is Saint Marys College Post Office, about 1.2 miles away on Saint Mary's ground; Notre Dame's own post office, standing since 1851 under its own ZIP 46556, is that community's institution, at pointer.