The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-12-08
JOURNAL Is UNIQUE,
PERIODICAL PUB
LISHEDf AT WASHINGTON.
Postal Information" Has No Sub
scription List and No Paid Ad-
vertisements, But 1t Is Widely
Circulated and Read.

hshed in Washington which modestly
lays no claim to having the largest
circulation in the city, or, in fact, to
any circulation at all, neither, does
1T assert that as an advertising me-
dunn its columns will be found of value
to our merchants, for no paid adver-
tlsements are received, yet it goes
right on coming out every week and
doing business at the same old stand.
The name of this unique and di-
minutive periodical, as there are but
two or three like it in the United
States, is Postal Information, and it
sees the light every Saturday in the
city post Office. Postal Information is
scarcely year old, and though its
exchange list can be counted on the
hand, and it has no purchase price,
it nevertheless is thriving youngster
in the field of Washington journalism,
and it's managers are not worried over
the ever-present question of a bona
ide, guaranteed, paid circulation
Some time ago small appropria-
ton was obtained, and plant suff-
GENTLY large to get out folio eight
and half by eleven inches was in
stalled in the basement of the regis
tration division of the city post Office
Every Saturday Postal Information
goes to press" being run off on a
small electric motor press and set up
day or so previously by one of the
employees of the Office who under
stands the work. While some of its
matter. is Standing yet much of it
is new weekly, and altogether it
presents very smart and up-to-date
appearance.
4: I'VE have found this little paper of
much service to the officers and en-
ployes of the, Washington city post
office and it's stations, for whose bene
fit Postal Information is published"
said an official of the city post Office
I'VE run off weekly about 150
copies, distributing them among the
employees of the Office where they
may be of ready access to all en-
ployes, and sending copies to the va
rious stations throughout the city, the
respective employees in these stations
being expected to read it weekly, as
it may be used by the postmaster to
convey certain notices and orders af-
fecting the service in the city to their
attention
Washington is now one of the 1arg-
er post Offices in the service, having
incorporated the various towns within
the District in it's jurisdiction, with
ten named stations, half a dozen or
so lettered stations, ga numbered sta
tons, doing business Of about
$1,S00,0OO annually and ranking
third in the per capita use of the
mails. It has a regiment Of employees
numbering about 1900 in all :
Very often the employees Of other
post offices wish to secure transfer to
the Washington city post Office, and
vice versa, and where these applica-
tons come to our notice we insert
paragraphs in Postal Information Civ
ing the name Of the clerk, the post
office at which he or she may be STA
toned and the grade and salary. ANY
clerk who may be interested may then
address a communication to the post
master, and frequently the exchange
is effected. These requests for trans
fer to our Office come from all over
the country, and VIC have on file now
one from as far south as Portsmouth.
Va, from Boston, Mass, on the north,
and Lincoln, Neb., on the west
"All offenses committed by and pen
alties imposed upon employees for in
fraction of the rules are also given
weekly, as they serve as reminders
to the entire force, as in the instances
of carriers being derelict in reporting
for duty or for failure to record time.
All recent fraud orders issued by the
department against such concerns are
weekly enumerated by name and ad-
dress, ETC., and would-be money-or
der purchassrs and those who would
send registered letters to such firms
are wafned by the postal clerks. All
orders of the Postmaster General and
his assistants which it is desired to
call to the attention of our force are
also published.
"A similar little folio of postal in
formation is published in Philadel-
Dhia, Pa, under the title Of the Post
Office News, and the New York office
gets out another along the same lines
which is called the Official Circular"