United States Post Office Records (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) records

There has been postal service in Upper Sandusky since at least 1813 (when the city was under the jurisdiction of Indiana County with John McClellan as postmaster). Subsequent political changes shifted the town to the control of Delaware County in 1819, and a designated Post Office was operating in Upper Sandusky in 1820, when the town was part of Crawford County. Between 1820 and 1936, there were 31 postmasters assigned to the office (a listing is given in the text of the speech delivered at the 1936 building dedication).

In the period covered by this collection, the service was in the process of moving to a newly leased location. Within the next 10 years such changes were instituted as city delivery, requiring mail boxes at all houses as well as identifying numbers on the dwellings. During the period it was the practice to have two deliveries a day, so the issues of staffing and workload were constant problems. As many small-towns post offices declined their services were often assumed by nearby towns, as was the case in 1905, when the office at Warpole closed and the service transferred to Upper Sandusky.

In 1933 the U.S. Public Works Administration allocated $71,700 for the construction of a Federal Building in Upper Sandusky, that would include facilities for the Post Office, and this new Post Office building was dedicated in 1936.