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I I 6 Post PostOffice Office Receipts Increase ase i 1 i a r re ola I p 1 4 A Stamp Sales f S Ar Are D Doubled o- o r a f 1 e 1 a l f 4 8 a 1 U Uptown Office Is' Is Needed D TOURING DURING the the past four years the growth of business 5 in the Salt a t Lake LakeL L has 1113 been phenomenal From annual receipts from tho the sale of stamps and find stamped paper the business has gr grown wn in in that time timeto to almost per annum annu raisin raising raisin the off office ice to 10 the thc hiah highest i cst reb regular tl tar grade of first class offices I This his is duo to three th things ns The rapid and md h healthy althy growth of the city in enterprise and population tho the sound business condition of the community and country in general the thu excellent e service rendered locally by b men trained and devoted to the service ice which has hns an sc encouraged and stimulated d the thc use of the mails for man many purposes There are large business con concerns erns in the cast east mail or order er houses honses and the like which ship by- by freight by-freight ht or 01 express catalogs and merchandise in carload car car- load lots to the Salt SnIt Lake hake L c. c postoffice for distribution to neighboring neighboring- zones s some sonio rno bein being returned as far fr cill ca ta l Illinois on un account of this offices office's D prompt 1 handling and efficient local service Th o t h h o 1 n f th k- k v 14 o U o w VIAr VIA r room room om has been changed In the past three years the front windows once hid by clothing lockers locker of or the clerks are arc now open opo to the public two each for Cor stamps general d delivery and ancl In In- In formation The Tho old letter leller drops In the south lobb lobby nine in number and and labeled as asto asto asto to direction of or dispatch to the tho confusion confusion confusion con con- fusion of or tho the public have been taken out and a a. parcel post counter with four tour windows has been bee Installed In Its stead Letters are aro now deposited depo in inthe tho the very front of ot the office and nd carried b by an electrically propelled conveyor to tho the facing table In the mailing section A few timers old unused to machinery hesitate about dropping their letters on tho the electric carrier but carry them by hand to acquaintances In the service for mailing Tho The Increase of ot business has left accommodations ac ac- ac accommodations ns In tho the lurch Tho The workroom work work- room Is about half as largo large as tho the service feeds In fact tact It Is estimated that there is sore need of ot a a. much larger building for tor all purposes Tho outside floor loor space now occupied by various government officials and for tor which the tho government Is paying rental rental rental ren ren- tal In office buildings In Salt Lake Lako City would constitute two entire en en- cn tire floors of ot the present federal buildIng building build build- ing InS add to this tho the area of ot another flood In tho the portion of tho structure and It moans means that that th three more stories or their equivalent In an addition to tho the building bu aro badly I needed This is especially noticeable since iman i j man many of oC the tho contract stations In tho the business suction section of ot tho the city have refused refused re- re I I fused to renew their contracts because the grOW STOW of ot tho the parcel post coupled co I with impositions on 01 their accommodation tion hon service was about to crowd them out of their quarters and supplant their regular business Thus tho the varied transactions formerly scattered among a half halt dozen stores and handled by ten or a dozen clerks are ate now di diverted diverted di- di to the tho main office and handled without the help of the station clerks and anu without me the floor noor space or of tho the thoI several stores I This emphasizes the need aced of ot a a. clasI classified classified clas clas- p postoffice station somewhere on I upper Main street for tor the establish establish- ment meat of ot which the to h postmaster has ha been working for the past six mo months and In which undertaking many good citizens are are lending a helping hand Postmaster Warrum was appointed In the tho early part of ot 1914 n and d took his office some time after the conclusion of ot Postmaster Thomas' Thomas fourth successive successive successive sive term Isis His assistant W W. E. E Block Is an experienced official of ot sixteen years government experience Su Su- Su Superintendent of or Malls Mails G. G S. S Chambers has been Men In the Salt Lake office oUke 24 2 2 years and is a a. popular and efficient of of- of ricer All the sup officials are persons of ot experience and exceptional exceptional exceptional ability having been selected and promoted for no other reason as not One of or them happens to agree with tho the present p postmaster in politics Tho The Is Js harmonious and loyal the tho discipline Is exceptional and the esprit du du corps Is Js evident in conversation with any of tho the |