The wageworker., 1906-11-30
JOURNAL Is UNIQUE
DIMINUTIvE PERIODICAL PUB
LISHED AT WASHINGTON.
Postal Information" Has No Sub
scriptioa List and No Paid Ad-
vertisements, But 1t Is Widely
Circulated and Read.

There is little newspaper pub
lished 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
it assert that as an advertising me-
dium it's columns will be found of value
to our merchants, for no paid adver-
tisements 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 its managers are not worried over
the ever-present question of a bona
tide, guaranteed, paid circulation.
Some time ago a small appropria-
ton was obtained, and a plant suffi
ciently 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
a day or SO previously by one of the
employees of the Office who under
str-
matter is ''standing,' yet much of it
is new weekly, and altogether it
presents a very smart and up-tO-date
| appearance.
I'VE have found this little paper of
| much service to The officers and en-
ployes of the Washington city post
Office and its stations, for whose bene-
! fit Postal Information is published
| said an official of the city post office.
We run off weekly about $50
! 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 larg-
er post Offices in the service, having
| incorporated the various towns within
| the District in it's jurisdiction, with
| ten named stations, half dozen Or
| 1ok% ,1Yop 10
tions, doing business of about
$1,3O0,00O annually and ranking
| third in the per capita use of the
mails. 1t has 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
tions come to our notice we insert
| paragraphs in Postal Information Civ
ing the name of the clerk, the posi-
Office at which he or she may be sta
toned and the grade and salary. Any
clerk who may be interested may then
address communication to the post
master, and frequently the exchange
is effected. These requests for trans
lcT " our OuuCe COInc lIOlu oil oNSl
| the country, and we have on file nov
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 giveI
weekly, as they serve as reminder:
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 thu
department against such concerns art
weekly enumerated by name and ad
dress, ETC., and would-be money-ol
der purchasers and those who woult
send registered letters to such firm
are warned by the postal clerks. Al
orders of the Postmaster General ant
his assistants which it is desired t.
call to the attention of our force arr
also published.
"a similar little folio of postal in
formation is published in Philadel
phia, Pa, under the title of the Pos
Office News, and the New York ofic'
gets out another along the same line
which is called the Official Circular
Real Fonetie Spelling.