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Show YOUR POST OFFICE 4 A V V tt w (By Postmaster O. L. Janton) This week the following items are presented with the earnest request that you cooperate with your post office In an endeavor to Improve some rather unsatisfactory conditions condi-tions related to them. It would greatly facilitate the delivery de-livery of your mall If you would promptly notify you regular correspondents cor-respondents and publishers of any change of address. This Is especially especial-ly true of newspapers and tnaga-tines, tnaga-tines, which cannot be forwarded without the payment of additional postage. When you cliange residence within the city, be sure to notify your bank,. power company, telephone tele-phone company, city water department, depart-ment, insurance companies, and all other local businesses with whom you have charge or service accounts so that the periodic statements to you may be up-to-date in their addresses. ad-dresses. Numerous statements and periodicals daily reach the post office of-fice which carry addresses that should have been changed from five to ten years age The delivery of such man la Inevitably delayed, for not every postal employee who handles It Is familiar with the new conditions involving the old addresses. address-es. It Is especially important that you keep your addresses for the lo- cal newspaper current, for there are now so many unusual instructions with reference to its delivery that U Is a physical Impossibility to follow fol-low them all where they deviate from the address given on the paper. There are many ex-service men who have changed their local residences resi-dences two or more years ago, but have not yet notified the Treasury Department of the new addresses for their checks. This condition Is unfortunate, for "many of these checks must be returned to the Issuing Is-suing office, since regulations forbid for-bid their delivery if there Is any change whatever even in the local address. All changes within the city with reference to your mall delivery should be attended to promptly in order to avoid any Interruption In the handling of It Patrons of the general delivery service or of the post office box service should not have their young children call for the mail. Too often we have mall previously called for by children brought back to the post office by persons who Inform us that It was found on the sidewalk or on the street. If parents find it necessary that their mall be called call-ed for at the post office occasionally occasional-ly by their children, a signed order or-der should always be sent with them. Otherwise, circumstances fre quently warrant that a child's re-, quest for his parents' mall be denied. de-nied. It It is desired that a child regularly call for the mail from the boxes or general delivery, a "standing'' order to that effect should always be filed with the post office. This will relieve postal employees em-ployees of any uncertainty about the proper delivery of the mall In question. All former post office boxholders who still have any keys In their possession for post office boxes now relinquished, are urged to return them to the post office as soon as possible. The deposit made for the keys will then be refunded. It will be a decided advantage to the post office to get these keys back, for It still requires several months to get new keys from the manufacturers. manufactur-ers. In the meantime, closed boxes with all the keys out must remain useless. |