Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 19, 1955
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CARRIERS NEED STRONG BACKS: Mail carriers' sacks are bulging these days. Here, a postman looks over his prospective load for the day, probably reflecting that he's going to be more than a little weary when his rounds are completed.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 19, 1955
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CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SHOWS: This closeup of sacks of parcel post mail plainly shows its nature, as gay Chrismas wrappings are visible through the sack openings. On a big day during the Yuletide season, the Post Office will process as many as 1,000 such bags of parcel post, not to mention more than 200,000 letters.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 19, 1955
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THE KEY TO THE SYSTEM: These labelled sorting boxes are the key to the problem of Christmas mail handling. In this one, there are cubicles for Canadian points and all other foreign countries. Similar boxes have spaces for mail bound to every Michigan postal station, no matter how small, and to principal cities all over the nation. Such detailed sorting at the start eliminates time-consuming operations at terminal points and speeds the flow of mail all along the line.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 19, 1955
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SORTING IS BIG JOB: With Christmas greeting cards flooding the Post Office, sorting of letter mail is a round-the-clock process for postal employees. These two women are part of the sorting crew. The local Post Office has added about 130 temporary employees for the Christmas rush, augmenting the normal force of approximately 200.