Better Mailing Week Aims to Cut Dead Letters
Postmaster General announces June 1 to 7 as Better Mailing Week to educate the public on proper addressing. Campaign urges return addresses in the upper left corner, clear names and addresses, and sturdy envelopes to reduce 21 million dead letters and 803 thousand undeliverable parcels annually. Nearly all dead letters lack clues, and improving addressing could save time and money.
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Associete? Press
Washington
Postmaster-General
New
Teel
United States Treasury
Return address could end costly directory service, post officials say
Costly directory service is driven by mail lookup needs. In New York City the daily address lookup cost reaches $500, and the service handles about 200 million pieces of mail yearly. Officials say a simple return address would eliminate the need entirely.
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New York City
Local notes from Star Tannery and area May events
Star Tannery notes reflect rural commerce and daily life in May. Stanley Warden delivered cattle, John Smith bought at Wardensville, Luther Brill bought a Chevrolet from Jacob Hockman, and Mrs Daisy Orndorff’s kitchen repairs proceed. Mrs Julia Heishman visits from Perry with family. An alarm at Sewell Fisher’s brush fire proved non alarming.
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Star Tannery
Stanley Warden
R. Hershman
John Smith
Wardensville
Luther Brill
Jacob Hockman
R. Brill
Daisy Orndorff
A. L. Dodson
Julia Heishman
Perry
W. Va
R. Heishman
Noah Heishman
John Heishman
J. M. Brill
Ashby Boyles
Winchester
For Rent Main Street Store Room
Classified brief listing a rental for a store room on Main Street with application details at 4 E Cork Street. Local rental ad lacks dates or prices and points readers to respond at the given address.
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Main Street
Cork St
Bus and Truck Operators Expect Federal Control
Washington May 27 An agreement on principles of legislation for regulating interstate motor vehicle common carriers was reached at a national conference of independent operators under the American Automobile Association. The conference was called by the A A A Commercial Vehicle Department to position the association to express to independent operators as regulation comes.
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Washington
American Automobile Association
Commercial Vehicle Department of
The
Conference Endorses Regulation Principles Unanimously
The conference reflected nationwide representation and united in belief regulation is an inevitable development. A resolution was adopted without a dissenting vote endorsing the principles on which independent operators represented at the conference support regulation to be developed.
Plant sale ad lists Geraniums to tomatoes at Smalts stand
An abbreviated ad from 440 National Avenue promotes varieties like geraniums petunia verbena and potted tomatoes among flowers and vegetables offered by C. B. Smalts.
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