Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1898 — A Boom in Box Rent. [ARTICLE]

A Boom in Box Rent.

Post-office boxes will be lots higher after April Ist. The department has issued orders raising the prices of all boxes after that date. t The increases per quarter year, for the different kinds of boxes, are as follows: Call boxes, from 15 to 25 cents. Lock boxes, from 25 to 35 cents. Lock drawers, from 40 to 75 cents The orders for the collection of the rents are also made more rigid. Hereafter rents must be paid within ten days of the beginning of the quarter, or the boxes will be declared vacant and rented to the first applicant.