| Show I I Post Office Department Aids Bureau of Identification in Finding People Consciously and unconsciously post office departments the world over perform odd postal non-postal ices The United States post office gets into banking with its postal savings work In rare emergencies it aids the federal bureau of investigation in identification by turning over to men G-men fingerprints taken of each c ch person who opens a postal savings account Occasionally says a writer in the Washington Post our post office delves into the business of locating missing people Heres Here's how its fan fans clest bit of service works You pay 3 cents postage plus 15 cents mini mIni- minimum mInimum mum registration fee plus 10 cents restricted delivery charge the let let- letter letter ter is then delivered to the ad ad- addressee addressee dres ee only i plus 23 cents for a return receipt showing the address I where the letter was delivered and the signature of the the- addressee I That's 51 cents on one letter I Thus the post office turns detec detec- detective detective detective tive finds your friend even if he has moved tells telis you where hes he's S e or r Lt living The idea came from outside the department and was made law by congress As for postal savings Canada Germany and other countries run banking branches German post of of- offices offices flees In addition arrange excursion trips collect license fees from every radio owner in Germany maintain buses which serve as traveling post offices Likewise traveling post of of- offices offices flees are arc used in Switzerland Rus Russia sia sla and elsewhere Back Baek in 1900 Belgium offered an nn odd service It was a centime 10 a stamp The detachable tag on the bottom reads in French and Flem Flem- Flemish FlemIsh FlemIsh ish Do not deliver on on Sunday If It the tag was left on the ie stamp the letter wasn't delivered on Sun Sun- day But if you didn't care and tore the tag off of the letter was de delivered de- de delivered livered any day of o the week |
