Originally published in The Vidette-Messenger of Porter County on October 13, 1965.
Home Mail Delivery In Offing For Porter People
By ADELYNE RUOFF
PORTER 一 Residents of the town of Porter will have house-to-house mail delivery and mounted route service, according to numbers, in the near future.
Mail service will also be provided for residents of the newly annexed area after a numbering system has been set up.
The information was received by the town board via a letter sent by Charles Ryan, deputy assistant postmaster general of the United States.
Reads Letter
Thomas Wagner, president of the Porter Town board, read the letter at Tuesday night’s meeting.
Ryan stated that the conversion of the present Porter Post Office to a branch of the Chesterton Post Office has been approved.
In the letter, it was stated that Porter, as an independent post office, does not meet the request for establishing city delivery service.
“We can comply by converting the Porter Post Office to a contract branch of the Chesterton Post Office,” Ryan said in his letter. “Mail delivery service will be brought to more than 8-- people with a savings in operation costs of $3,500 yearly.
Favors Change
“Porter’s present postmaster, Orith Imhof, favors this change since it provides improved service to his patrons,” Ryan noted in his letter.
“Imhof is eligible for immediate annuity and has indicated he will retire when the contract is effected,” the acting deputy postmaster general added.
Bids are now being received for a building to house the branch office in Porter.
At the present time, residents of Porter come to the post office for their mail. Rural routes are serviced out of Chesterton.
