Arizona republican., 1913-12-18
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By Separating Parcel Post from Regular Mail Divis- ion, Christmas Flood is Safely Handled - Maxi mum Expected Saturday

An example of cooperation and team play, second to none, is to be found in the system by which the Phoenix post office is eating it's way into the inn mense Christmas rush. The stacks and stacks of parcel post matter melt away like snow before the touch of the sun, when the clerks of the flying fingered brigade get started
 You are not allowed to stamp your own parcel noWadays-at rush hours, 1 anyway. You have quick efficient clerk do it. You pass up to the win doW-one of three that are all same and give up your package. The win dow man weighs it, tells you how much ! and takes your money. You are then gently but firmly shoOed away to make 1 room for the next one. While the per son back of you is stepping up to your place, the clerk scribIes the amount of postage needed on the parcel and losses 1 the same to his next door neighbor. This one takes it and affixes the prop CT number of red or blue or green stickers and shoots it along. Another clerk grabs the parcel slams can ceiling stamp at the little engraVings, 1 and shOves it to the next man. It fin ally finds it's way into large tray be fore samicircular gaIIoWs on which are hanged" a whole lot of mail pouches. These represent states or dis tricts. Actually. before you have had time to straighten your hat or pull down your cuffs preparatory to leaving for the dry goods store or wherever the rest of your shopping is to be done, your mail is reposing safely where it will be handled oy the railroad depart ment.
 big tablc-four by forty-eight feet was placed in the rear of the post of flee yesterday afternoon. From this, the hundreds of pouches of Christmas mail will be loaded onto the special trucks and carried to the trains. Last night the doorway in the rear of the post office was the busiest place in town.
 The rush of incoming mail has not made itself felt vet. Two parcel post wagons worked yesterday and the day before. All is in readiness for the eX- tras when they are needed.
 Postmaster McClintock said yester- day that he thought the peak" of the load would come on Saturday, mean ing that the biggest rush of this holi- day season would fall on that day. As sistant P. NJ Anderson believes that | is making preparations to cope with it
 in case it laps over There may be nothing in the postal regulations that says people can get their Christmas mail on Sunday. but perhaps the Phoc- nix post office will be on the job that day. too.
 Tn" 'a were very few moments during yesterday that the windows where you may buy parcel postage were not busy. At times the streams of waiting Christ mas shippers extended far into the lob by. But at no time has the capacity of the office been taxed. The system now in operation has shown itself cap able of taking care of every bit of the Christmas load thus far in evidence. By separating the ordinary operations from those special ones necessary to carry the holiday rush. the postmaster has succeeded in keping what he dearly Ioves-an empty post office"
 By this is meant an office in which there are only two points where mail colIects-at the window where it is re- ceived, and at the doorway where it ! awaits the drays-all bundled up and separated ready for the trains
 The lobby is far from empty, but there is no congestion. The streams of Phoenix folk are carefully diverted into ] their proper channels and kept flowing constantly. At times. Col. Mae wand i CTS out into the lobby to watch the | crowds. He explains that in this way 1 he can experience all the sensations of | the floorWalker in the department ! store.