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Show S. H. Postal Service improved u Improved mail service in Sugar House was pledged this week by David R. Trevithick, US postmaster of Salt Lake. Meeting with the Public affairs committee of the chamber of commerce com-merce in Sugar House, Postmaster Trevithick said many reforms are already underway to improve and expedite the mail service, and he offered his full cooperation to the chamber members in ironing out difficulties and instituting new reforms to better the mail operations opera-tions in the Sugar House area. Arthur Walton, Salt Lake superintendent super-intendent of mails, and Will H. Walker, Sugar House branch superintendent, su-perintendent, attended the chamber cham-ber committee meeting, and were entirely cooperative and supporting support-ing in the chamber's request to: 1, Park postal employes' automobiles auto-mobiles in some off-street area soon to be designated for them. 2. Overcome obstacles which tend to delay the mails in and out of Sugar House. 3. Extending post office hours on Saturday, perhaps until 4 p. m. 4. Eliminating delay of deliveries deliv-eries to business concerns. 5. Establish street mail boxes with chutes to accommodate motorists. One already has been installed in front of the Sugar House post office. 6. Tackle the problem of getting normal deliveries of mail to businesses busi-nesses on the fringe edges of Sugar House. "We aim to give full and satisfactory satis-factory service to the people in Sugar House," the postmaster asserted. "We already have plans approved ap-proved in Washington to improve and increase our traffic service to the rear of the Sugar House post office. Lack of funds is all that is holding up this project," he said. If the Sugar House traffic survey sur-vey suggests it, these plans will be expanded to include a circular drive around the post office, enabling en-abling postmen in cars to drive in on the south, load or unload their mails and depart on a driveway ' to be constructed on the north of 1 the post office where a hedge now j grows, Trevithick said. Mail pick-ups daily but not Sun-1 days, will be extended until 9:30 p. m., enabling Sugar House folk to make late mailings at the boxes in front of the post office to obtain ' a service hitherto shut off hours earlier, the postal executives reported. re-ported. They asked the cooperation of I the businessmen in helping to speed up the mail service by early mailings mail-ings so that the manpower and machine pool in the downtown office of-fice can "do first things first," thus assuring that airmail, specials and finally local deliveries can be pushed head with the greatest convenience. con-venience. The meeting was one of the most progressive of any chamber group, and promised to improve and expedite ex-pedite all mailing to and from Sugar House, S. Morgan Sorensen, chairman of the group, reported. |