Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1908 — POSTOFFICE TO MOVE NEXT WEEK [ARTICLE]

POSTOFFICE TO MOVE NEXT WEEK

New Location Will Boom Business Property In That Part of Town. The new postoffice furniture will be shipped today from Indianapolis and will be installed as soon as received, in the K. of P. building. There will be 231 call boxes, 225 small keyless lock boxes, 50 medium, intended for business firms, and 20 large boxes. These are all combination lock boxes. The prices will be, per quarter, call boxes, 25 cents; small locks, 45; medium locks, 60; large locks, 75, same as now. The office will be more accessible on Sundays than it has ever been heretofore and persons having lock boxes can get their mail any time in the forenoon after the distribution of the mail takes place. The stamp, money order, general delivery and call box windows will be in the front and the rear will be used for the rural delivery carriers. The mail will also be delivered to the office from the west side of the building, where a new door will be cut in. There will be much more convenience to the public in this new arrangement. The room will be heated by steam. It is expected to get the new furniture installed and everything in shape to move in about the middle of next week. As there will be no furniture to move from the old building, except the safe, the moving will be a short job. The moving the posoffice into the K. of P. building, where it is likely to remain for ten years at least, is a great boom for the business property in that end of town, and already all the rooms in this building have been rented, both upstairs and down, except the business room surrounding the postoffice part on the east and north, a very desirable business room which a half dozen different parties are now after.