HARMONY — A new amenity aims to improve postal service for residents.

Mayor Cathy Rape at Tuesday’s council meeting announced Harmony will get a cluster mailbox on Mercer Street near the municipal building. It will have 13 doors for people to put mail in, including one parcel box. Single mailboxes will be replaced in the process.

The borough had a post office that operated from 1967 until 2009 when the lease expired. Some residents opted to have a box number in Zelienople’s post office.

“We were upset when the post office was taken away,” Rape said. “We didn’t get much notice. Since then, it was on my mind (to have cluster mailbox).”

A village post office opened in 2013 at the Wagner House on Mercer Street, bringing back some basic retail services.

Rape said a previous potential location for the cluster mailbox was town square. However, not everyone agreed to replace their personal mailboxes with the cluster box. The Postal Service requires 100 percent of residents in a certain area agree to using a cluster mailbox for one to be installed.

A strip of grass by a sidewalk near the municipal building where the cluster box will be placed will have concrete poured over it. An iron bench will also be installed.

Council member Dave Szakelyhidi said he believes the box should be more aesthetically pleasing.

“It’s not fancy enough,” he said. “It’s a rectangular box. They have nice tops for these mailboxes.”

Tops for cluster mailboxes cost about $220.

“I did not agree to raise funds for that,” Rape said.

The mailbox received unanimous approval from council.

“I think it’s great,” said council vice president Don Sims.

Rape said the mailbox will be installed after three catch basins in the borough are repaired or replaced. That work will be done this spring, said water authority operations director Frank Grannon.

The cluster mailbox will cost about $1,366 and the bench will cost about $1,400. Costs for pouring concrete have not been determined.

Rape said funds for the box will come from donations and personal fundraising. She also said depending on how much financial support the mailbox gets, another may be installed in the near future.

“I’ll beg for it if I have to,” she said.