Plans for future local postal service to University students remained indefinite after the last Eugene city council meeting when councilmen rejected a proposal for a new Eastside Post Office branch on Villard Street.
SPECIFICALLY, the council did not approve of a zoning change to locate the post office on Villard Street between Franklin Boulevard and 15th avenue. The site was selected to give “efficient and economical” service in the area.
Several weeks ago, it was learned that the post office in the Student Union woul lose its lease next summer. A. L. (Si) Ellingson, SU director, told the Emerald Thursday that the University has offered to extend the lease until such time that new postal facilities could be established.
ELLINGSON said he was investigating the acquisition of a “contract sub-station” to replace the existing branch. The chief difference between the present service and the sub-station , the director noted, would be in the amount of postal deliveries made. The sale of stamps and the processing of parcels would continue.
If a sub-station were to replace the present branch, Ellingson continued, it would serve only he University campus. The postal facilities would probably be located in the same part of the SU, in order to use existing equipment. Whether the rental of post office boxes would continue is not known.
ELLINGSON assured students that some type of postal service would be available, even though the SU branch is to close. Such service may or may not be on the University grounds, he added. The director said it was his understanding that the Campus Planning Committee preferred the post office to be off the campus.