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Show Post Office Goes Back to Old Delivery j Service Due to Department Economy Cut j Because of directives from the Tost Office department incident to its economy program, the city delivery service of Cedar City, is again back to where it was 20 years ago when it was first established, es-tablished, according to Gilbert L. Janson, postmaster. As the result of 20 years of strenuous effort by this community, commu-nity, two daily deliveries were finally authorized by the department depart-ment and placed in effect about a month ago, stated the post mas- ter. This new delivery service was in operation just long I enough to demonstrate conclus- j ively that it is more' than a convenience it has become an actual necessity. By the two-delivery service just discontinued, all first class and other Important mail was being delivered from four to six hours earlier in the outlying parts of the city than had been the case under the 20-year-old service. With only a slight improvement, we are now back to the original service. Postmaster Janson said that one employee, who left a permanent per-manent position on the assurance assur-ance that he would be given a permanent Job at the post office, will have to be dismissed at the close of May. Three other substitute sub-stitute employees will have to take reductions In the number of hours employed at the local post office on account of the economy measure. However, the postmaster went on to say that currant news indicates in-dicates there is a probability that the "cutbacks" may be cancelled In the near future and post office of-fice service restored to Its former level. The city has now been re-rout, ed for three full-time carriers each with a delivery district in the city. Each district is getting one complete delivery a day. All first class mail received In the morning and all mall which has accumulated after the carriers' departure from the office the previous day, is taken out on this trip. Due to this arrangement, arrange-ment, deliveries cannot follow any regular time schedule, but will vary considerably stated the postmaster. |