It was not until the 1970s that the telephone became a standard feature of German households.-__-0000-__- For centuries, correspondence had been the only means of long-distance communication; the importance of municipal post offices was correspondingly high at this time. In the newly founded "City of the KdF-Wagen near Fallersleben", the position of the post office was particularly important. This was because the population of the newly founded town was made up of people from many parts of Germany. For most of the new inhabitants, correspondence was the only way to keep in touch with family back home. After the first Italian workers arrived in the town in September 1938 and more foreign forced laborers were deployed in the town and the factory during the course of the war, the post began to gain in importance as a means of communication.

On July 18, 1938, the town, which was just over two weeks old at the time, received its own post office.

Previously, postal traffic had been handled by a branch of the Vorsfelde post office in Heßlingen. The new post office had six counters and was located in a barrack at the roll call area of the communal camp. According to the Aller-Zeitung, it differed from the other barracks only by the sign "Deutsche Reichspost", the letterbox, the stamp and stamp dispenser as well as the post office truck, which were to characterize the appearance of the town until well into the post-war period.-__-0000-__- The mail volume in November 1938 was already about 2,000 items per day - and this although the town had only about 5,500 inhabitants in those days, of which about 2,500 were Italians. At the same time, the Post had already handled more than 25,000 foreign items. According to press reports, the postal workers had even learned Italian for this reason. Deliveries at the warehouse itself were made directly to recipients, twice in the morning and once in the evening. Parcels, however, had to be picked up directly at the post office, which had its own customs clearance office. There were also separate envelopes for German and Italian workers. The forced laborers who were deported to the settlement on the Mittelland Canal in the course of the war were also allowed to send mail to their relatives back home as long as there were postal connections to the occupied territories. However, the letters were subject to censorship.

On July 10, 1939, the post office moved into a massive stone barrack in the immediate vicinity of Cianetti Hall. The change of location was due to the continuous increase in postal traffic. "The brightly and colorfully plastered, elongated building next to the huge hall is nice and friendly," noted the Aller-Zeitung newspaper.

The steady growth of the town led to the opening of the first branch of the post office in the Steimker Berg housing estate on September 3, 1940. In addition, new letterboxes were installed throughout the town and more staff were employed.-__-0001-__- In view of the shortage of labor caused by the war, the post office also employed four women as postwomen for the first time in March 1943 and deployed them in delivery and station services.-__-0002-__- Althoughthe construction of the "town of the KdF car" planned as a model Nazi town progressed, the post office was once again given a temporary building .

The contemporary press was aware of this problem and tried to conceal it by glossing over the building and in particular the interior design. The paper praised the new "large counter room", which allowed "smooth and fast processing". In November of the same year, two telephone booths were installed in the post office.-__-0000-__- The climax of the curious praise was reached in November 1940, when the Aller-Zeitung, in view of the installation of steam heating, spoke of the post office of the Nazi model town now developing into a "model post office". From 1939 to 1941, the editorial office of Die Neue Zeit, the official party newspaper of the "City of the KdF Car", was also located in the post office.-__-0001-__-

-__-0000-__- Werner Rammert, "Telefon und Kommunikationskultur. Akzeptanz und Diffusion einer Technik im Vier-Länder Vergleich", in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, vol. 42 (1990), pp. 20-40.
-__-0001-__- "Der Postdienst in der Stadt des KdF-Wagens", in: Aller Zeitung of November 4, 1938.
-__-0002-__- "The new post office opens", in: Aller-Zeitung of July 12, 1939.
-__-0003-__- "The post office serves customers", in: Aller-Zeitung of November 19, 1939.
-__-0004-__- StadtA WOB, S 40/8, undated newspaper article "Fünf Jahre 'Die Neue Zeit'", in: Die Neue Zeit from July 1944.
-__-0005-__- "The first branch post office established", in: Aller-Zeitung of September 5, 1940.
-__-0006-__- "The first female letter carriers", in: Aller-Zeitung of March 15, 1943.