After the passenger trains were
gone and the mail taken to the Post Office, the service windows would
be closed, while Everett Howell would sort the mail and place it in
those little combination boxes that lined the wall. When he was done he
would open the windows, and everyone there would go check their
mailbox. There was no mail delivery in town, unless you were far enough
out to be on a rural route. When the P.O. was in the northeast corner
of Rixmann's building, the wall with the little mail boxes was on the
north side. There were two windows with iron grills that you faced as
you walked in the door, to the back room on the left. In the back room,
were the counters and mail slots on the walls where the mail carriers
sorted the mail for their routes.
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