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Show YOUR POST OFFICE (By Postmaster O. L. Janson) Major changes and adjustments In our city, delivery . service ' are being contemplated by the Post office of-fice department. As a preliminary to recommendations for improvements improve-ments in. time and number of 'deliveries 'de-liveries of mall to different sections of town, post office inspectors will make a complete survey of present condition! In' order, that 'our city may piake a desirable Impression and Influence .the Inspectors favorably fav-orably In their recommendation to the Department, there are certain unwarranted conditions' affecting our. carrier , service , for which ,the residents are accountable and should take immediate step to remedyj y Jn the first place, there are still many stretches' of sldeWair which do. not meet' Post Office department depart-ment standards., , These standards require jthat every foot of sidewalk on delivery joules must J be pa7 d, or .covered wth a, substantial layer lay-er ot gravel or. shale; There , must be no open Irrigation ditches across the walks,1 and all 'shrubbery and trees must be trimmed so that over hanging i branches will not be a hazard from either the sides or from above. : ; s In contrast to these requirements, in tnany places we have tall weeds along the walks which make It extremely ex-tremely annoying to the carriers during and after a storm. In other places we have rosebushes or other 6hrubs obstructing walks to such an extent th'.t, detours off the pavement pave-ment into mud must be made in order to pass. In' numerous places low-hanging branches from trees make use of walks a hazardous undertaking. un-dertaking. One sidewalk in the west part of town has been completely obstructed for years hy a large pile of rocks and a series of open irrigation ir-rigation ditches. If it were generally gener-ally known that our carriers walk from fifteen to seventeen miles with a heavy load every day, sympathy, sym-pathy, If not public pride, should move every resldnt to see that the sidewalk past his property Is Improved Im-proved to meet at least minimum requirements. . ' In the second place, in a recent Inspection It was found that there are still too many residences wlth-mall wlth-mall boxes that can not meet postal pos-tal requirements. There are also many houses without house numbers, num-bers, or with numbers so faint or hidden by vines or shrubbery that they can not be found. This condition con-dition will be a serious handicap to us in getting better delivery service. ser-vice. . During this, our Centennial Year It would appear that civic duty and responsibility, rather than post office of-fice regulations, should prompt every ev-ery resident of Cedar City ,to cooperate coop-erate with the city government and the postal service to the extent that every rod of our city .delivery routes Is placed in first-class condition. Such effort will rebound to us not only in better postal service, but also in a more beautiful city. |