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Show Post Office Department Aids Bureau of Identification in Finding People living. The idea came from outside the department and was made law by congress. As for postal savings, Canada Germany and other countries run banking branches. German post offices, of-fices, m addition, arrange excursion trips, collect license fees from eve?y radio owner in Germany, maintain buses which serve as traveling pos" offices. Likewise, traveling post of flees are used in Switzerland Rus sia and elsewhere. Back in 1900 Belgium offered an odd service. It was a 10-centime stamp. The detachable tag on bottom reads in French Jd the letter wasn't delivered on sUn day. But if you dida't care . J tore the tag off. the letW w s t hvered any day of the week. Consciously and unconsciously, post office departments the world over perform odd non-postal services. serv-ices. The United States post office gets into banking with its postal savings work. In rare emergencies, it aids the federal bureau of investigation in identification by turning over to G-men fingerprints taken of each person who opens a postal savings account. Occasionally, says a writer in the Washington Post, our post office delves into the business of locating missing people. Here's how its fanciest fan-ciest bit of service works: You pay 3 cents postage; plus 15 cents minimum mini-mum registration fee; plus 10 cents restricted delivery charge (the letter let-ter is then delivered to the addressee ad-dressee only) ; plus 23 cents for a return receipt showing the address where the letter was delivered and the signature of the addressee! That's 51 cents on one letter! Thus the post office turns detective, detec-tive, finds your friend even if he has moved, tells you where he's |