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Show Post Office Department Urges Participation In 16th Annual Mail Box Improvement Veek Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield has announced the! week beginning May 17 as "Mail Box Improvement Week." This will be the 16th consecutive campaign cam-paign to tidy up the official mail receptacles. Postmaster Gilbert L. Janson is requesting the rural patrons In this area to repair and beautify their mail box equipment and approaches to help lend brightness bright-ness to the scenic beauty of the highways, roads and drives. The Post Office Department is the most Important agency in keeping the people of the nation informed. The rural delivery is a post office on wheels and many times these services are taken for granted and not fully appreciated. appre-ciated. The carriers are trying to serve patrons promptly with as few mistakes as possible. Errors are sometimes caused by a patron's pa-tron's name being omitted on the mail box, especially when a substitute sub-stitute serves the route while the regular carrier is on vacation or sick leave. The substitute is not always acquainted with the route as well as the regular car- rier. Many boxes, which are the highway billboards of the postal service, have become unsightly with rust, unserviceable due to a kaky condition, broken doors or no lids, missing signals, no name, supports being bent or rotted which need replacing, weeds and wild grass grown around the supports sup-ports and approaches, and in many places the ground is rough and full of chuck holes. Postmaster Janson asked the patrons to cooperate in improving improv-ing their mail box equipment during this period, May 17 to 24. He desires that the routes become a source of pride for the patrons, the Post Office Department and the carriers. For those patrons desiring de-siring additional information on the proper size and height for their rural box, they may gain this Information from the postmaster post-master of the rural carrier. |