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Charlie The Chihuahua With Christmas Mail, December 1972 Photographer: Cecil Lockard

Charlie The Chihuahua With Christmas Mail, December 1972 image
Year:
1972
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 22, 1972
Caption:
Like her mailman master, Cal Foster of 401 Mark Hannah Place, Charlie - short for Tammi Charlie, not Charlotte or Charlene - thrives on daily mail deliveries. According to Mrs. Foster, the eight-year-old chihuahua grabs the mail as the postman puts it through the mail slot and delivers it to the Fosters. Occasionally, she has been known to grab the postman's glove along with the mail, but it's all in fun. Unlike her master, Charlie is very enthused about the large quantity of mail the Christmas season brings. It means lots of letters and a new red Santa suit.

Sam McDonald Reads His Mail While In Veterans Hospital, March 1964 Photographer: Duane Scheel

Sam McDonald Reads His Mail While In Veterans Hospital, March 1964 image
Year:
1964
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 10, 1964
Caption:
CATCHING UP ON HIS MAIL: Samuel A. McDonald, the only Negro school teacher in the 2,377-resident village of Dundee, gets into the day's batch of mail while recuperating in Veterans Hospital from serious injuries suffered in a Jan. 31 auto accident. Students and Dundee friends have collected more than $1,700 to help defray the 37-year-old McDonald's hospital and medical bills.

A busy Christmas season at the Ann Arbor Post Office, December 1955

A busy Christmas season at the Ann Arbor Post Office, December 1955 image
Year:
1955
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 19, 1955
Caption:
EFFICIENCY'S THE WORD: The Christmas season represents the biggest challenge of the year for the Ann Arbor Post Office, and this is the biggest Christmas mailing season yet. But methods evolved through long years of experience enable the huge mail-handling chore to proceed smoothly and efficiently. The complex mail-sorting process, for instance, stars right at the very beginning -- when the mailer turns in his cards, letters and packages. Instead of dropping them into slots, he hands them to a girl in the Post Office lobby,. She sorts them into three classes -- city mail, state mail and out-of-state mail.

Accumulated parcels in the "rural room" of the N. Main St. Post Office, December 1955

Accumulated parcels in the "rural room" of the N. Main St. Post Office, December 1955 image
Year:
1955
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 19, 1955
Caption:
PACKAGES, PACKAGES: Mailing of Christmas gift packages steps up enormously the volume of parcel post mail. Here's an accumulation of parcels in the "rural room" in the basement of the N. Main St. Post Office.

Part-time workers sort mail at the Ann Arbor Post Office during the Christmas season, December 1955

Part-time workers sort mail at the Ann Arbor Post Office during the Christmas season, December 1955 image
Year:
1955
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 19, 1955
Caption:
MORE SORTERS AT WORK: Normally, the Post Office has 15 of these sorting boxes in operation, but for the Christmas season the number has been increased to 34. Many of the part-time workers are vacationing students, and some of them are working a 150hour shift, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.

Holiday packages ready for shipment sit in the basement of an office building at N. Main and Depot Sts, December 1955

Holiday packages ready for shipment sit in the basement of an office building at N. Main and Depot Sts, December 1955 image
Year:
1955
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 19, 1955
Caption:
READY TO GO OUT: To help handle the bulky package mail, the Post Office is using the basement of an office building at N. Main and Depot St. for some of its parcel post operations. Here is a batch ready for shipment.