Show RURAL DELIVERY J By Arvin Bellon Among the post office services Roosevelt residents are taking advantage of is the new Certified The new service provides important advantages of Registered Mail at less including proof of Certified Mail is designed particularly for mail which the sender desires this proof of but which is normally replaceable and which has no intrinsic value such as legal papers The basic service costs 15 cents plus 18 cents in all for a one-ounce The letter carrier or desk clerk who makes delivery obtains a special the signature of the person to whom as proof of For an additional- 7 cents at the time the sender deposits his Certified Mail he can obtain a return receipt signed by the INSURED MAIL The postal insurance of parcel post was streamlined this week with the discontinuance of the insurance fee effective Jan From now on a single fee of will be for all domestic parcels insured for amounts not in excess of We believe that the change in the fee will make little difference to but that it will ex handling parcels and of POSTAGE DUE Did you know that one man nearly missed becoming President of the U. S. because he refused to pay the postage due on a This Zachery refused to pay the postage on a Letter advising him that he had been nominated by the Wig party to run for the Presidency of the U. S. would happen to operations at the local post office in the event of war or national emergency which would isolate D That is a question prior to would have had a doubtful Under the conditions which prevailed in the postal administration previous to November a major attack on Washington would have had a disastrous effect on the All management and all records were centered all major decisions were made top authority was concentrated in one building at the corner of Twelfth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Washing D. C. no matter what happens in the machinery is in the field and it can operate the service Management functions have been dispersed to widely separated regional and district and our records have been completely dispersed to several Now that post office operations have been decentralized the post offices of Utah could operate smoothly under the supervision of District Operations' Manager Geo E. McDonald and his staff located in Salt Lake Postal Receipts In any community the local postal receipts are usually a pretty good barometer of business Receipts for the Roosevelt office from 20 to 1 1 were This represents a decrease from the corresponding period last year |