Uintah Basin Standard | 1962-04-12 | Page 11 | Post Office Has Imortant Part in Our Lives

Post office has part in our lives uses the post but few know what part it really plays in our says Postmaster Arvin L. Most people think of their post office as a place to buy deposit and conduct a few simple mail the Post Office Department is one of the largest and most complex businesses on The United States Postal Service employs more than people in almost post offices across the It handles some 63 billion pieces of mail and transacts over billion dollars worth of business each According to Postmaster the United States has about of the world's but docs over 23 of the world's postal Offices vary in size from New York City with over employees and annual receipts of million dollars to some crossroads settlements where the postmaster is a part time and receipts are less than per to population trends and popular says Postmaster number of post offices in the United States is steadily In there were post offices throughout the United Slates and its and in July of there were post During the past several two post offices have been discontinued in this One at Hayden and ont at Star route service now brings the mail to former patrons of these The first American post office was established at Boston in Benjamin Franklin was appointed by the Continental Congress to head up the American Postal System in Our first Postmaster General under the was Samuel He was appointed in of The Roosevelt post office has 6 employees and is a second class office with gross receipts being during