Post Office

In this post office there is also a dry goods store. Mail arrived in Nauvoo at least three times a week. Because mail was sometimes lost or stolen, people would often sent two or three copies of important letters. Instead of stamping the letter before mailing it, the recipient would pay the postage. Someone told us that Joseph Smith would get so many letters in the mail he told people that they would have to pay the postage because it was getting to expensive for him to get all the letters. 

This picture has the mail-sorting box that was found in the Nauvoo area.

This is the dry goods part of the store. They sold all sorts of water pails, tools, and things of that nature. Ja is practicing retrieving water; he said it was comfortable on the shoulders, but that was without the water.