Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-27 | Page 2 | Rentals Hurt Postal Service

H O0 I RENTALS HURT I POSTAL SERVICE! If System of Leasing Rooms If for Pogtofficea Is Also 8 Condemned WASHINGTON. June 27 Declaring ihnt th present federal system "im-POMd "im-POMd upun the postal system of the n)un.r," constitutes :in intolerable travest) on Rood business usage." jS master General Work today, in a terms letter to Secretary Mellon of in. treasury department, urged that an effort be made at once to impress1 ''3 UDOn Oiijfrefs the neeelii r.r t,rin. I . i "ing :i systematic building policy," so I fjjffi that the, postofl.ee iepartment may mj not in the future be at the mer. . d j lessors." The present policy of renting bulld-in.s bulld-in.s lor postal usage, lr. Work do-I dared 'cannot be continued without earnest protest of the postmaster general as It ia subversive to good bus-W bus-W ' methods and the department ahuuld be relieved of this condition JJw l;ir..ugn congressional appropriation h The postmaster general in his- com- ajH munloation made a plea toi the sup- jKffi port of the treasury department "to in securing from .irr".'!..0 relief ilom tbe extortion of rentah; bo that, 5K In lieu of the department j. using SjS unnual renial for a building sgulval- f-mm 'm '" ,eVn 1 ' prt of Iti oosl plus H ue principal during the least .1 period of years, to be finally at th mercy of IB the lessor for a rental, the govern - Jw ment might Itself own the building through bond issues bearing perhaps 4 per cent interest, which would bo more in harmony with good business customs " This condition, It was explained, was a mutter of the "gravest concern i to the department," and hag developed, develop-ed, it was saliJ, from inadequate space available for postofflco service throughout the United States During the last 10 years earnings of thr. department, de-partment, rr Work s;il(l. lia.l doubled u nd the business transacted In New York City alone was equivalent to that of the United States 25 years ago and was double that of Canada at this time.