Show I i Postoffice Department Planning Many Improvements in Service I Sweeping Improvements provide I I lag fog nex next day day first class letter cletter sere ser serj aorl j vice for tor most of the people of the I state slate of Utah were announced today today to to- toi day by Postmaster General Are Ar j Ar-j to-I to thur E E. E Summerfield The an an was made In a a release release re re- 1 lease l se i issued in lit Salt Sait Lake City by W. W D. D D. D Drewer Brewer Denver er Regional Region al at Postal Operations Director Mr bir Summerfield stated elated that I postal patrons In the area are now assured that barring occasional human haman error In distribution first first- class letters letters' mailed by 6 5 pm p.m. or cr In a 8 few si smaller alter offices before b the last dispatch will be delivered to their destination within the area on the first delivery delivery de do livery trips of ot the following business buei- buei ness day Improvement Plan The Utah mall mail improvement t Is a part of a nationwide out all-out effort to Improve the post postal pos pos- tal tat service service el Mr Summerfield p d out Thirty six ix major United Uni Uni- United ted Stales States cities' cities together with various sized areas surrounding t them em have already Inaugurated similar programs and fifty additional ones are inthe in inthe the planning stage stage However the Utah project which includes more than Plan of the square sQuare miles is to the largest eras erea yet yet to be Included In a 8 Jingle ingle 1 plan according to Mr Sull Summer Summer- field Except for Daggett andRich and andRich Rich all or part of ot the states state's twenty nine counties are Included In 1 the Utah mall improvement t plan pan and the total area Is s greater than that served by entire postal systems in many foreign coun coun- tries The great distances involved ed in some instances more than 1400 road miles from post office to 10 post office require precise timing ln la collection dispatch and transportation schedules I Mr Summerfield called the project the greatest single in provement In mull mall for tor torI I Utah in more than thana a a generation The program for better first class ss mall service has been been- been in in test o D' D since June 8 During this shakedown period results have haw e exceeded expectations I Exceeds Exceed Exceed Millions Million The entire area encompassed d Iby I by the plan contains Utah post poat offices or Ot other postal In In- That figure includes I all 16 offices of the Uie first clear class Tall all 47 of ot the second class 7 71 1 third class I fourth t da class In addition n branches 28 and stations a are served The total pieces o of t letter latter mall handled handl d on an average e day by these those post offices ex exceeds exceed a one million This vastly improved mall mail service ser set vice has been possible despite e gravely overcrowded postal facilities fact taci- some of which are ere grossly y inadequate i in in design as well u pace space for the band handling linK of today today's ala tod heavy mall volume Summerfield Summerfie continued has I- I Jt bag ha been t tle li through the whole wholehearted d cooperation of ot postal employees employee p postal atai officials and many others I Th The Utah mall mail Improvement area rea reaches reaches' from Irom the Arisona Alison Iona border on oa the south to the Idaho I II II I I border on the north and In most I Instances i from from Colorado to Neada Nev Ne Nevada lada ada east and west wesl The area originates ori orl more than 99 per cent of the states state's man mall centers center have bave been beene e at Ogdon Ogden Provo Richfield Rich Rich- field Price Ced Cedar r City and Brigham Brig Brig- ham City with Salt Lake Lako City serving as tho the Ci ei c iral concentration concentration tion point These are the cities from which principal mall routes emanate Mall Mail from offices on star atar routes which enter these post postoffice office 1 readily available for tor transfer to other distribution points the concentration center or railroad poet offices Service Plan Throughout the twenty-seven twenty county area such routes have been rearranged to provide the possible service between tl the e various New lew motor vehicle service ce has b been en ene e established in several several cities and towns to permit the offices offices' thereto there to dispatch all of their final col col- lection letlon of mall mail to to connect with Sait Lake City and other points I However In la n j hundreds hundred of thousands of pieces of ot first first- ci cil are being advanced asI as I much as 24 hours from eastern aswell aswell as aswell well as west coast cities through the new W service A All l of ot these Improvements which speed deliveries have been accomplished with only a nominal Increase In overall cost oost which the Post Office Department expects to absorb with efficiency resulting result- result ing from the training end and experience e Once ence ce achieved In connection with carr carrying i ig g out the new program Mr Summerfield pointed out Next day delivery of ot the first first- class mall mail within the area served by the post poet offices is fe now possible possible because of closely integrated in t grated time tables which govern the work of the area area 1 postal units and the transportation linking them them together working Hard working p poe poa S tal tat employees race against time J firs In In order order to make possible nenI next next- I day delivery of hundreds of ot thousands thou thou- sands of 01 letters etters to people in fn the area area Summerfield explained ot of f first crass t letter matt mall service In Utah will be reflected in better service all over Ant America Since a large portion of US U.S. mall mail originates or terminates or-terminates r terminate in hi cities like Salt Satt Lake Lak strategic strategically ally located to serve reas I 1 metropolitan plan in to I operation opera here together er already established and others to tobe be organized organized or or- in the near rear near tu ur a ate afe e major steps forward in this the POet Office Departments Department's go goal i of d day y delivery of a letter between any two major points in the United Uni Un ted fed States stated Mr Summerfield con I eluded |