Hellam Post Office to close doors Saturday

(YDR) To commemorate the Hellam Post Office's last day in operation, which will be Jan. 22, local historians are encouraging people to get mail hand-canceled with the round Hellam date stamp.
Members of the Kreutz Creek Valley Preservation Society plan to do oral interviews with people about their memories of the post office that day as well, said Katina Snyder, treasurer of the historical society.
She suggests that people bring an envelope with a stamp affixed to it to get the round Hellam date stamp. However, she advises against putting the envelope in the mail, just in case it gets canceled again at the processing center. Continued

Photo: Postal officials encouraged Rural Free Delivery (RFD) carriers to replace their horses and wagons with the latest in transportation technology. This unidentified carrier painted his early electric-motored vehicle in the same paint and identification scheme as the RFD wagons of the era. Circa 1910 (Smithsonian Institution).