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Show S.L Post Office Handles Record Load of Christmas Holiday Mail perience this season, as shown by our experience on these peak days, in delivering residential mail in one delivery will enable the Salt Lake post office to contribute con-tribute its share to the nation wide program of the Service in maintaining the best service with minimum use of inexperienced manpower. This means faster deliveries with fewer errors." The Salt Lake City post office handled the largest load of mail in its history on Monday and Tuesday, December 18 and 19, Postmaster David R. Trevithick reported today. The record local mail volume was handled with less employes than ever before under new programs pro-grams which emphasize overtime over-time benefits for regular career employes of the local post office with minimum use of Christmas temporary helpers. This area's record mail load was in keeping with the trend over the nation. The postmaster said he had been advised by the Post Office Department that more than one billion pieces of mail, an all time record, were handled nationally by the 35.000 post offices during these two days. This year's delivery plan used an "all in one" home delivery with mail for the day delivered to homes in a single delivery, instead of the set up of previous years "in which residents would have inexperienced youngsters running over their lawns several times a day delivering a few cards at a time." In addition to greater economy and efficiency of all in one deliveries, de-liveries, this year's holiday mail handling at the local post office has featured more pay for regular regu-lar full time career employes and a lesser use of inexperienced employees. This year's two day record totaling 6,096,000 pieces locally was handled with 600 temporaries, tempo-raries, compared with 810 last year. Nationally, use of temporary tempo-rary help, with extra wages to the regular employees, has been cut from nearly 300.000 last year to about 250,000 this year, about 20 per cent. Millions of dollars in extra wages, however, will go to the regular employes in over time. Despite the overtime, the Postal Service is achieving more economy this year because the speed and skill of the regulars in handling the mails more than offsets the additional costs. The once a day Christmas delivery de-livery in most areas was made by a "fusing process." Simply stated, this means that regular employees began work in early morning hours to infuse all the mail for the day for each route into batches that can be handled in a single delivery by carriers out on the route including temporaries. tem-poraries. In some cases, those making deliveries icked up extra loads out on the route from the familiar green colored relay mail boxes (which are serviced by postal trucks), but they do not have' to make numerous trips back into th post offices to carry out limited batches in frequent, costly trips. The Postmaster commented "We are confident that our ex- |