Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...session of Congress (see THE CONGRESS). He heard Senator Borah of Idaho on the subject of the onion tariff and Representative Dan A. Sutherland of Alaska on the subject of salmon being disturbed by earthquakes. General John H. Russell, High Commissioner to Haiti, paid respects before returning to his post. Governor General M. L. Walker of the Panama Canal Zone conferred for a half-hour. They were but a few of a long procession from Officialdom of which a great part simply wanted to welcome the Chief back to Washington...
...branch of the Government is the one with the job of keeping the other branches, and all the people under them, in touch with one another. Stamps, mailboxes and mailmen are so closely integrated with daily life that the average mind is about as conscious of the U. S. Post Office Department as it is of an eye or an eardrum...
Billion-Dollar Service. Mr. New prefaced a survey of his Department's record and functions by telling what it costs to operate it now ?714 millions for the last fiscal year. Soon, he said, the U. S. Post Office will cost a billion per annum...
...Parcel Post. Fourteen years ago these 50 offices would have consti- tuted no business index, because in 1913 fourth-class mail was only about 5% of all domestic matter carried. Now it is 63%, the 14- year-old parcel post service having been extensively adopted by manufacturers for delivering their merchandise. The Rural Free Delivery system, inaugurated in 1896, opened up a new mail-advertising field which is now seven million families strong, and parcel post enabled advertisers to fill their mail orders with mail deliveries...
...Special Handling." A refinement of the parcel post was lately introduced. For 25c extra, parcels for either urban or rural delivery can be specially stamped, marked "special handling," and assured of receiving the same treatment as letters. "Special Handling" parcels are kept out of the sacks containing ordinary parcels; they skip the terminals and are expedited in the railway mail cars...