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Show New Postal Rates in Effect Tomorrow; Improvements Okeyed at Local Office Installation of Gas, Mail Boxes Among Local P.O. Improvements The 2-cent postcard and the 3-cent stamp on " a letter will be history after today, as the new postage rates go into effect Friday, August 1, local postoffice officers reminded remind-ed townspeople today. Beginning Friday August 1,-it 1,-it will require 4 cents an ounce for an ordinary first class letter let-ter and 3 cents for a postcard. Airmail not exceeding 8 ounces oun-ces will go for 7 cents an oz.; air post-cards, 5c each; third class mail, 3c first 2 ounces IV2C each additional ounce. Weight limit for third class is increased up to but not including in-cluding 16 ounces. Citizens are asked to consult the postmaster postmas-ter on other changes. Letters to Canada and Mexico Mex-ico are 4 cents; to other countries, coun-tries, 8c for the first ounce and 5 cents for each additional ounce; air-mail letters overseas, 15c for each half ounce to Europe; iuc eacn nalt ounce ta South America and 25c eachi half ounce to South Pacific, Australia or Asia. There is no rate change in Fourth Class mail. International Internation-al rates also remain the same these being made by all countries. coun-tries. Penalty The law provides a 5-cent penalty for mail that lacks sufficient postage. But the Pqjt Office announces it will nt assess this penalty between August 1 and October 31, 1958 ' giving people a Chance to get used to the new rates. Between Be-tween those dates, only the amount by which the postage was short will be collected. Both the 5-cent charge and the amount of insufficient postage pos-tage are requested from the person to whom the letter is addressed. Postoffice Improvements Along with information on the change in postal rates, is announcement also by Harrison Harri-son Conover, acting postmaster at the Springville postoffice ofi several changes and improvements improve-ments recently approved by the postal department, for the local lo-cal office. Among major improvements, approved already is the conversion con-version of the old hand-fired coal furnice to gas. Bids or. I he conversion job are expected to be called for soon so that the installation may be made before be-fore cold weather. Also some additional mail boxes are expected to be installed in-stalled at the post office to take care of the increased business and some larger boxes for use by those with larger amounts of mail are expected to be available in the ,iear future. fu-ture. A remodeling job to widen the parcel post window to facilitate the handling of packages especially during the Christmas rush is also among the projects for which an okay from the- postal department is expected. Included among improvements improve-ments which have already been made is the anchoring in cement ce-ment of the various mail boxes box-es placed about town for the convenience of patrons in depositing de-positing mail and of the relay boxes used to deposit mail during dur-ing delivery, which have also been bolted down into cement. |