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Show SPECIAL DELIVERY ' with a W V, ?ov"VmB America II, '""K -needed safeguard for ! "nils which has been .enable value to the development dustry.""110""1 co"nrce and in- bn 8ystem has often stream- nr a SS the 'bIood-ItV 'bIood-ItV thi r,ri Amenca commerce. t,,i 1 year 0( its operation there were only 600,000 letters car- mUUonay U,e t0tal is t 85 the yer and the value of of dolH -t TTifd nms int0 bilUons Sm ln the Past the Spring- "e1 106 has handled from 1200 year registered letters each In 1937, the federal government shipped 5J4 billion doUars of gold coin and bullion and silver by Registered Mail from New ork and Philadelphia to Ft. Knox r" shiPment, began January' 1 vas completed June 17 iyo7, and weighed nearly Hi, million mil-lion pounds. 1 Love Letters Did you know that in Venezuela the Post Office accepts love letters at half the usual first-class rate provided they are placed in special bright red envelopes? If the same regulation were in effect here there probably would be a colorful collection of missives passing through the Springville Post Office. |