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Show .URAL MAIL DELIVERY ROUTES Motor Trucks May Be Used on Mall r-Routes r-Routes After the War. Will It pay the government to operate oper-ate motor trucks on rural mail delivery de-livery routes? I Statistics collected by the United j States postal authorities, and supplemented supple-mented in part by Investigations made by crews of tire testing fleets of The n. F. Goodrich Rubber Company, operating oper-ating In the rural districts of the south, conclusively that Uncle Sam can enrich himself by at least $1000,-000,000 $1000,-000,000 by installing motor trucks on his "farm to ttable" routes. Data shows that the antiquated system In vogue the use of the horse, and wagon wag-on on 44,000 routes throughout the country is a losing proposition; and to the extent of $30,000,000 too. The few motor truck investments made by the government last year earned $70,-I $70,-I 000 apiece on a original investment I of $4,200 for each truck. Moreover, j communities were reached by the mo-I mo-I tor trucks that had never been visited I before by Uncle Sara's mail carriers. The assertion that there are roads today never traversed by government delivery wagons may seem incredulous but the postoffice authorities support the statement that of the 2,199.000 miles of road In this country, 1.122,-000 1.122,-000 miles have no mall service at all. Furthermore, there are 1,600,000 families fam-ilies In our enlightened nation that have no postal communication with the outside world |