It characterized her writing style as "neat and direct, even when it becomes circuitous" and concluded that "a novel like Long Live the Post Horn!

"[1] In The New York Times Book Review, John Freeman wrote that Long Live the Post Horn!

is "a brilliant study of the mundane, full of unexpected detours and driving prose" and additionally described it as the best post office novel of all time.

as "an unconvincing account of willed self-transformation", arguing that the protagonist's family and friends are not well-developed characters and stating that as the text progresses "it grows increasingly hard to care about either Ellinor or her redemption".

[5] A review in Publishers Weekly described the book as "bleak and wry", and stated that the writing style is "entertaining in small doses" but less enjoyable over the long term.

She additionally noted that the Third Postal Services Directive, which Elinor is assigned to oppose in the book, was implemented in 2014.