Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-08-19
ORLEANS NEW POSTOFFICE.

Except for little interior decorat-
| ing and the placing of few Office
fixtures, work on the new furnishings
and rooms for the Orleans post office
is now complete. This is one of the
| finest equipped postoffices in northern
Vermont and now has over 1400 feet of
floor space. The lobby has been en-
larged to more than twice its original
size and has two direct entrances from
the street. Along the entire side
extends the case work, which is in
golden quartered oak, velvet finish.
The case commencing at the right as
you enter has a window for registry and
postal savings, next the money order
window and in about the center the
general delivery window. Toward the
left side is the stamp window and the
parcels post delivery, which is COM
blnatlon of window and door. In the
right hand corner is the letter drop
box and just below this the paper box
while at the end of the case is the
parcels post receiving box. The case
contains $50 call boxes. $50 lock boxes,
40 medium size lock boxes and ten
large lock drawers. There are two
desks finished like the case work for
the convenience of patrons, a large
bulletin board and small glass en-
closed bulletin for postoffice notices,
in the lobby. Back of this case, is the
small and fully-equipped Office of the
postmaster, at the right Of which is
the general mailing room with its every
modern appliance. including desks.
adding machines, typewriters and other
accessories. There is 20-bag capacity
pouch rack, which very much facili-
tates the handling of outgoing mail,
the stamping table and new type R.
F. D., table from which the R. F. D.
carriers are able to handle their mail
in the least possible time and with
double drawer combination which
Independent of each other and tends
to correct and quick work. There are
filing cabinets, slip cabinets, form
cabinets, and in fact. about every
known accessory to facilitate the
issues of large postoffice. The office
| is also equipped with two safes. In
about the center of this large room is
the primary sorting case. at which the
incoming mails are first sorted as to
routes, etc., and from the other side of
which local mail is handled to the $50
boxes. A separate entrance for incom-
ing mails and rear exit for R. F. D.
carriers to their teams back of the
post office is provided. It ought to
be known that the Orleans postoffice
is one of the two second-class post
Offices in Orleans county, the other
being in Newport, and that last year
showed. gross sales in excess of
$4,000. There are only twenty-five
second-class postoffices in the entire
state and only four first-class Offices,
therefore, it will be seen that the post
Office here is among the largest in Yer
mont. In fact the salaries will this
year be something near $4,000 paid to
this single postofice. The office is
efficiently managed by the postmaster,
A. G. Baird, the assistant. Miss Marion
Ordway, and Harry Bassett and Fred
Donaldson, all of whom are competent
and obliging. This additional space
and new arrangements, with all its
accessories will make it in every
sense, except by name, first-class
postoffice and one of which the village
may we'll be proud.