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Postmasters In Danger

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Day
2
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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vv ashington, June 29. - The work of consolidating small outlying postoffices with a large adjacent one, making a single postal district with modern facilitiea, will be pushed vigorously by this administra tion. Consolidation abolishes the individual small postomees, with their usually orude service, and substitutes substations for them; reduces the postmaaters to sub-ageot9, with accompanying saving of salaries and complicated auditing work, and instead of the many postofflces substitutes the large office with branches, all having free delivery and other advantages accruing to a postoffice from such privileges. 'The postal officials are confldent that the extensión of the movement will re9ult in a big sáving in expenditures, while furnishing immensely superior facilities.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News