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Letter Carrier Pat Smith Makes His Rounds Downtown, January 1992 Photographer: Carrie Rosema

Letter Carrier Pat Smith Makes His Rounds Downtown, January 1992 image
Year:
1992
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 19, 1992
Caption:
Wearing no coat and with his sleeves rolled up as usual, Ann Arbor letter carrier Pat Smith makes his round of downtown businesses Monday.

Night Superintendent, Wayne M. Lamerson, looks over incoming post, December 1966

Night Superintendent, Wayne M. Lamerson, looks over incoming post, December 1966 image
Year:
1966
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 15, 1966
Caption:
His work piled up for him, Wayne M. Lamerson, night superintendent at the city's W. Stadium Post Office, looks over bags of incoming parcel post from a single truck.

Hampers in the W. Stadium Post Office, December 1966

Hampers in the W. Stadium Post Office, December 1966 image
Year:
1966
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 15, 1966
Caption:
Hampers of mail abound in the Post Office. The mail is emptied from the mail bags into these hampers to be sorted. Ann Arbor deliveries are not seriously delayed.

League Of Women Voters Members With Finance Campaign Letters Ready To Be Mailed, September 1960 Photographer: Doug Fulton

League Of Women Voters Members With Finance Campaign Letters Ready To Be Mailed, September 1960 image
Year:
1960
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 19, 1960
Caption:
IT'S A LOAD: After weeks of stuffing and stamping envelopes, the thousand letters from the League of Women Voters, are finally on their way to the post office for the beginning of the League's annual finance campaign. Mrs. William Morse (left) and Mrs. Warren Smith will mail the envelopes, take a deep sigh of relief and plunge into another project.

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.