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Awfor Officials Ready For Rush In Temporary Home
ACROSS THE SEA The Klamath Falls Post Office is a busy place these days as the
first deluge of Christmas mail begins to come in. Packages, letters and cards bound
for every state in the union and many foreign countries come into the post office,
housed in temporary quarters in a remodeled garage. Here, parcel post cleric Mel.
vin Clayton attaches a postage sticker to a Christmas package bound for England.
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TIMESAVER One of the most useful machines in the
Klamath Falls Post Office is this automatic canceller,
which shoots a stack of letters through in a split second.
Here, dispatch clerk Ed Gardner operates the machine in
the post office.
Record Flow Of Mail
xpected This Season
eled at a cost of $883,280 by
the Work Saver Body Compa
ny of Seattle.
Housed in the quarters are 67
regular employes, including car
riers and other personnel nor
mally working outside. But dur
ing this Christmas season, the
post office will increase its staff
by nearly 50 per cent, adding
about 30 employes for the sea
son to receive, handle and dis
patch thousands of Christmas
letters, cards and packages in
addition to the regular mall
load.
One feature of the temporary
post office is the modern coun
ter, which replaces' the old
fashioned windows. The lobby
of the post office contains postal
boxes and is separated from
the rest of the building by a
set of doors, to keep cold win
ter air from invading the main
section.
The Klamath Falls Post Of
fice faces Christmas 1963 in a
remodeled garage and all indi
cations point to a record holi
day flow of mail.
But local postal authorities
are not dismayed about t h e
prospect of a record Christmas.
The garage at 734 Klamath Ave
nue contains slightly less room
than the regular post office
building on Seventh Street, but
is arranged more conveniently.
Gone in the temporary quar
ters are the pillars of the old
building. One problem is park
ing and persons having busi
ness at the temporary post of
fice have had some difficulty
finding parking space. But this
problem is being studied by city
and postal authorities.
The temporary post office
will be in use for about a year
while the regular building is en
larged and extensively remod-
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STAMPS. PLEASE The public meets the postal em
ployes in the temporary Klamath Falls Post Office across
a modern counter, replacing the old fashioned windows.
The post office is housed in a remodeled Klamath Ave.
nue garage. Here, stamp clerk Pearl Libby (right) waiti
on a woman customer.
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KLAMATH FALLS, OltEGON. SUNDAY. DKCEMMKK I.
ONLY HUMAN HANDS Letters come in virtually every size and are covered with
every manner of writing and no machine has yet been devised to effectively replace
the human mind and hands to sort them. Thousands of letters each day pass through
the Klamath Falls Post Office. Here, substitute clerk Jane Gorsch sorts out a batch
into holes bound for various Klamath Falls locations.
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BOX AFTER BOX Post office box service continues at
the temporary Klamath Falls Post Office on Klamath Ave
nue. Here, a boxholder collects his mail from a lower box
in the lobby of the post office. The lobby of the tempor-
ary quarters is separated by a door from the rest of the
build ing, so that cold winter air won't constantly bo pour
ing into the main section.
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mmnvrniLC. DAi.it A I ttUMt WhiMJ the Klamath Falls Post Office resides in a
remodeled garage and prepares for a record stream of Christmas mail, work contin
ues on the regular post office building. The temporary quarters will be occupied for
about a year while the present three-stor structure on Seventh Street is enlarged
and remodeled. The vtok W being don by the Work Saver Body Company of S.
attle for contract price of $86"3,280. At left, carpenters finish up a wooden fram.
into which concrete will tgi poured to form a wall of the north addition to the build-
ing. Concrete pouring on this wall began last Tuesday. At right is a wall on the south
addition that has already been poured. While work is being done on the outside of
the building, the inside it being extensively remodeled and moderniied.