Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 26, 1963
Caption:
Joe Loukotka lugs a heavy mail bag

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.

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.

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.

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.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 19, 1955
Caption:
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.