Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...although the postal authorities in this area think that such a system would be a good thing for the University as well as for the post office, they are not including it in any plans for the future. The same thing may be said about the lateness of the mail train; it poses a problem which lies out of the local office's domain and which must be considered as part of a daily routine...
Since the University occupies such a prominent position in the delivery program of the Cambridge Post Office, and since the amount of time value mail which comes into the University from outside and which often must wait an extra day for delivery is so great, the question of having a separate federal post office for Harvard has naturally been considered...
However, if a Harvard postal system were to be set up, it would not necessarily have to be contained in a single unit. At M.I.T. the system is broken down into several small units which serve various parts of the M.I.T. campus. Cambridge 39 brings mail sacks to each of these postal divisions where a clerk sorts it and has it distributed to the offices and dormitories in his particular domain. This has the advantage that regardless of whether or not the mail train is late, delivery of New York and western mail can be always made...
This situation is largely due to the vast bureaucratic structures which gradually spiral down to level of post office such as Cambridge, 38, and which is so tied up with relatively small considerations that any large-scale improvement such as the correction of the existing New York mail situation becomes virtually impossible. A Post office for Harvard University falls victim to the same type of disinterest in any sort of problem which might take an excessive amount of study and consideration. Within this framework the local office is quite helpless...
Cambridge, 38 handles the mail when it comes into its area of action and jurisdiction and rests content to devote its energy to the task of maintaining an efficient postal system on a relatively small scale. If it continues to succed in doing this, it will have done one job well.After its arrival at Cambridge, 38 the mail is broken down into street and dormitory classifications for individual routes...