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Show Sugar House Post Office at Work Few of us, merchants or residents, realize the tremendous service provided us by the Post Offices in our area. The Sugar House Post Office serves approximately 27,000 homes and businesses, over 100,000 people in all. Their deliveries start at Liberty Park, including the northeast and southwest corners, and extend to 39th South 5th East, except for the area served by Foot Hill Station, and on east to the mountains. There are 58 routes with a possible 500 stops per route. Mr. Edwin G. Brown, Assistant Superintendent at Sugar House, states that there are four types of delivery: by foot, as the familiar figure in the picture at the right, by mailster, by truck, and by private car on a mileage basis. Storage boxes relieve the burden of the man on foot, but the rest carry all mail, including parcel post. Law requires that the weight carried not exceed 35 pounds. The foot carrier will handle a package weighing not more than 4 pounds or bigger than a shoebox. Leaving for his daily round is George Anderson, at the right. -. ' J-W M WO USB . J r . J 1 i'V'.l The Sugar House Post Office employs approximately 90 persons. per-sons. This includes not only carriers and clerks, but also relief re-lief men and maintenance personnel. person-nel. More pictures on paae 5. Life- ;P1lT-' .M .! r.-. If jfcfcil- . . , Intense activity in the sorting room at 8:00 a.m. on Monday morning. Each carrier sorts his day's mail into slots arranged according to the route he follows. Letter-size mail goes into the slots directly, with several slots to an address receiving heavy mail, but larger pieces must be "primaried" before re-sorting. Stops from 400 to 520 are usual on each route. "v j ' 4 John Newsome is driving this 'Cushman' three-wheeled motorized scooter. Ten are in use from Sugar House, all in zone 6. They are used in sparsely settled areas, or where the residences are set far back from the street. This transportation was proved a success in Colorado Springs, which has comparable climate and snow hazards with Salt Lake City, in 1958. |
