St. Tammany farmer., 1906-12-15
JOURNAL IS UNIQUE
DiMINuTivE PERIODICAL PUB
LisHED At WASHINGTON.
APostal information" Has No Sub.
scription Lat and No Paid Ad-
vertisements, But Il Is Widely
Circulated and Read.

| STCu5dte0 ana 0Saos
Inere Is a little newspaper pub
lished in Washington which modestly
lays no claim to having the larges
circulation in the city, or, in fact, t.
any circulation at all, neither does
It assert that as an advertising me
dunn Its columns will be found of value
to our merchants, for no paid adyer
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.
m1nutive periodical, as there are but
two or three like 1t in the United
States, is Postal Information, and 1t
sees the light every Saturday in the
city post office. Postal Information is
scarcely a year old, and though its
exchange list can be counted on the
hand, and it has no purchase price,
1t nevertheless is a thriving youngster
In the field of Washington journalism,
and its managers are not worried over
the ever-present question of a bona
fide, guaranteed, paid circulation.
Some time ago a small appropria-
zion was obtained, and a plant suffi-
ciently large to get out a folio eight
and half by eleven inches was in
stalled in the basement of the regis
tratfon division Of the city post Office.
Every Saturday Postal Information
goes to press" being run off on
small electric motor press and set up
a 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.
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.
I'VE 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
1t may be used by the postmaster to
convey certain notices and orders af-
fecting the service in the city to their
!; Washington is now one OF the larg-
er post Offices in the service, having |
the various towns within |
the District in its jurisdiction, with |
ten named stations. half a dozen or
50 lettered stations, GA numbered sta
tons, doing business Of about |
Il 300, 900 annually and ranking
third in the per capita use of the
nails. 1t has regiment of employees
numbering about 1900 in all.
Very often the employees of other
,cSt offices wish to secure transfer to
lie Washington city post Office, and
yice versa, and where these applica-
ions come to our notice we insert
ara agraphs in Postal Information Civ
ng the name of the clerk, the post
'Tce at which he or she may be sta
ioned and the grade and salary. Any
Jerk who may be interested may then
!ddress communication to the post
master, and frequently the exchange
5 effected. These requests for trans
er to our Office come from all over
frvy L. i
ne from as far south as Portsmouth,
"a, from Boston, Mass, on the north,
nd Lincoln, Neb., on the west.
"All offenses committed by and pen
lties imposed upon employees for in
raction of the rules are also given !,
1eekly, as they serve as reminders :
, the entire force, as in the instances
carriers being derelict in reporting
)r duty or for failure to record time. .
II recent fraud orders issued by the :
apartment against such concerns are
eekly enumerated by name and ad- :
ress. etc., and would-be money-or !,
er purchasers and those who would :.
end registered letters to such firms
re warned by the postal clerks. All
'ders of the Postmaster General and
Is assistants which it is desired to
Ill to the attention 6f our force are
SO published.
"a similar little folio of postal in.
rmation is published in, Philadel-
lia, Pa, under the title of the Post
flee News, and the New York Office e
It's out another along the same lines b
hich is called the Official Circular" fl
Need Of Information.
The learned traveller had delivered h
3 great lecture on the manners and -
stoms Of Japan. =
"And now," he said, in conclusion, n
shall be pleased to answer ques- b,
ms pertaining to any peculiarities 4,
this interesting people upon which =
may not hare touched in my dis %
urse." n
Professor" eagerly asked a young h.
arried woman in the audience, what b
the Japanese do to plum Juice to +
Ike 1t jell?" sa
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