Show branch P PO 0 to speed nail mail delivery th ajie new method of speeding up mail deliveries d 1 I th through h addition of branch post lost office liffick number to the i A tb idreas on mall mail for del delivery cry lc large iw le cities is a being pl placed d m I 1 operation R reports from many any c cities indicate that at it t it has hem been received enthusiastically by the 1 press bu busi Z waa A concerns re postmasters and the pohl public wl a few days after initiation of all the plan 1 b under res instructions of postmaster n east general frank C we walker III nearly a all the I 1 postmasters had I 1 in khz the large cities A affected acted had meo assigned postal on unit numbers b to their I 1 mir branch uit millions of residents had bad we been advised of the number barab or to be added to them their addresses an and ut a canid ai erable volume a of mal mail 1 already vu A car carrying I 1 th the numbers assign agthe cd the new system speeds up the reparation of f mail 1 I for distribution Rp P Z offices and od pur permits nitis much more ams rapid handling of mall mail by in experienced posta postal clerks As inda a of whom he in have a bem been employed to replace personnel who have gone into alto the um armed od forces and into at war tod industries wates rapid increase in volume of mall mail and the loss of some thirty thousand postal employees to the armed forea forces made it necessary to adopt the plan alao in the interest of accurate ef bemid mail mad service and for the re lief hd of dt postal personnel who are am retrying carrying an extremely heavy bur den of work the average work week in the service now is about 51 52 limits hours and in many post offices are am working 10 and it 12 hours a day seven days a week be ease cause of local shortages ol of persall personnel an example of the new type at 01 addis adms job john C smith 21 mattapan cattapan Mat tapan ave boston 8 massachusetts the number after the name of the nty lity not indicates miles the branch post past office or postal unit through which the cc delivery is made each reel resident dent of the large cities is a asked by his postmaster to add the postal writ unit number to his return address and 1 b notify all to whom it he Is writes that hu his address is not corn complete without the number Res residents idess 13 of small mail idol cities towns tood ltd rural I 1 regions should inquire of them correspondents in ill the large cibe atti concerning the number her go to le the city 11 residents branch post past off office so an that the mall mail in may ay foe be ex padded t it the degree to which mail mad will b be speeded depends up upon the I 1 to which the numbers are wd b by y the mailers it U under it the new plan mail that is last ml I 1 to large cities marrying carrying the pos t ri unit and t number will be distributed name quickly than is possible now A d w with I 1 much less strain on postal while mail which does not net the number will be dell delivered red y As rapidly a as at pres present c ont it yell no not receive the benefit of the ille nyc dier mor distribution and may not H d d delays caused by inability of uba de depleted I 1 lorce force of 1 eap exp experienced cromweed Plo to yeas to handle the real mail I 1 adin as he tm asters alters the press and the ra in the cities affected are en co op PI wing to bring the plan to the at tt tz af of the P public him hundreds of les on the subject have hem been are ared for publication etc and throughout the country am pod i ing the plan since it its A d depends on the degree to alues the public pm re realizes J beca I 1 the fact iari the mails will be speeded by atte ad addition oi the p proper number be ho mad far the large te r a cities ties I 1 cdo effected are chwe those with a Pod otio of 0 more than or ot that w with I 1 th salt lake city the y one in ut utah included in the |