In addition to the change for Minnesota residents with Iowa addresses, rural residents will also have new street-type addresses assigned to be used instead of route and box numbers. About half of the county s rural residents have received their new addresses. Coordinator Dan Krzoska said the addressing process is progressing a lot better than they had anticipated, and very few errors ha ve been found. There are approximately 1,000 more addresses left to be completed. Spring Grove addresses are expected to be completed in July, while Houston addresses will be finished in August.
Residents have one year to have their addresses completely changed over.
Mail with the old rural route addresses will be delivered for the first year. Some city addresses have also been changes as part of the new E-911 process. No charge for changing drivers license The Department of Transportation has agreed not to charge for new drivers licenses that are needed due to the address changes. The county highway department will begin erecting the driveway signs with the new address this week. Krzoska says the highway department hopes to have the signs erected before winter.