The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-01-16
JOURNAL Is UNIQUE
DiMINuTIvE PERIODICAL PUB.
llsHED AT WASHINGTON.
"PostaI information" Has No Sub.
seription List and No Paid Ad.
vertisenents, But II Is Widely
Circulated and Read.

Circulated and Read.
There Is little newspaper pub.
lished in Washington W, 'ch modestly
lays no claim to having the largest
circulation in the city, or, in fact, to
any circulation at all, neither does
Il assert that as an advertising me-
dunn its columns will be found of value
TO our merchants, for no paid adver.
tisements are received yet 1t 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 il
sees the light every Saturday in the
city post office. Postal lrformation is
scarcely year old. and though its
exchange list can be counted on the
hand, and 1t has no purchase price,
II nevertheless is a thriving youngstcr
in the field of Washington journalism.
and its managers are not worried over
the ever-present question of bona.
fide, guaranteed, paid circulation.
Some time ago a small appropria.
ton was obtained, and plant sufii.
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
small electric motor press and set up
day or so previously by one of the
stands the work. While some of its
matter is standing yet much of 1t
is new weekly, and altogether 1t
presents very smart and up-to-date
appearance.
we 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 $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 service in the city TO their
attention.
Washington is now one OF the larg
err post Offices in the service. having
Incorporated the various towns within
the District in its jurisdiction, with
!. ten named stations half dozen OIL
so lettered stations, ca numbered sta
tons, doing business of about
$l,300,000 annually and ranking
mails. 1t has regiment of employees
numbering about 800 in all.
Very often the employees of Other
post Offices wish to secure transfer tC
the Washington city post Office, anC
vice versa, and where these applica
tons come to our notice we inser
paragraphs in Postal Information Civ
ing the name of the clerk, the pos
Office at which he or she may be sta
toned and the grade and salary. Any
clerk who may be interested may ther
address communication to the post
master, and frequently the exchange
Is effected. These requests for trans
fer to our office come from all owe
the country and we have on file nov
one from AZ far south as Portsmouth
Va from Boston. Mass, on the north
and Lincoln, Neb on the west.
IAN 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 tn
department against such concerns ar
weekly enumerated by name and ad
dress, etc, and would-be money-o
der purchasers and those who woul
are warned by the posta' clerks. Al
orders of the Postmaster General an
his assistants which It Is desired t
call TO the attention of oar force ar
also published
"A similar little folio of postal II
formation is published In Philade
phia, Pa, under the title of the Pos
Office News, and the NeT York offic
gets out another along the same line
which is called the Official Circular,