Chapter IV: Special Articles

Stamp Manufacture, Bureau Engraving and Printing 46
Post Office Inspectors 48
Railway Mail Service 48
Parcel Post, Opposition Thereto 49
Interesting Facts. Postmasters General 53
Withdrawal of Letters from the Mail 54
Handling of the Mail in Department 54
Cost Accounting 55
Cleansing Mail Bags 55
Farm-to-Table Movement 55
Postal Service in Alaska 57
Standardization of Post Offices 58
Postal Savings Circulars in Foreign Tongues 58
A Patriotic Editor 59
Damage, Parcel Post Mail 59
Opinion of Daniel Webster on Mail Extension 60
Blind Woman on Pay Rolls 61
Wanamaker--Four Postal Reforms 62
The Rural Carrier as a Weather Man 64
New Box Numbering System, Rural Routes 65
Wireless Telephones, Rural Service 68
Parcel Post Exhibits at County Fairs 70
The Great Express Service of the Government 71
The Telephone and Parcel Post in Cooperation 72
Speeding up the Service--Rural Mails 73
Training Public Officials 74
For the Benefit of the Fourth Class Postmasters 76
Public Work and Private Control 77
Protecting the Public Records 78
Registry and Insurance Service, 1916 78
Readjustment Rate, Second Class Mail 79
Peculiar Customs, European Rural Delivery 80
What Was a Newspaper in 1825? 81
Women in the Post Office Department 82
Railroad Accidents, Construction of Cars 83
Public Ownership of Telegraph and Telephone--Burleson 83
Liquor Carried by the Mails 84
How the Post Office Department Helps the Farmer 85
Expediting the Mails on Star Routes 87
Abraham Lincoln Postmaster in 1837 88
A Central Accounting Office for Each County 88
Millions of Money for Good Roads 89
$14,550,000 for Rural Post Roads 91
Mail Extensions by Air and Motor Truck Routes 92
Care Required in Preparing Contracts 93
Birthday American Postal Service 93
List of Postmasters General 94

CHAPTER V

_Miscellaneous Matters_

General and Financial Summary 95
Items of Interest 97
Old Laws and Regulations 104
Queer Collection Holiday Mail 108
Feeding the Cats 110
Couple of Distinguished Canines 110
Soldier’s Sister a Mail Clerk 112

INDEX TO ITEMS OF INTEREST 112

THE AMERICAN POSTAL SERVICE