The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-10-04
0sKALOOSA POST
OFFICE BOOSTED
MADE CENTRAL STATION FOR
MALAYSIA COUNTY.
ORDER EFFECTIVE OCTOBER |
Sixteen officers Made Accountable to
County Head and Receive All
Supplies From oskaIoosa.-Will
Mean More Help.

DskaIoosa post Office has received
big boost at the hands of the post
6fice department at Washington, d.
THE O5kaloosa office is made a
central accounting office" for all the
Offices in Mahaska district, sixteen in
number including the home Office and
becomes tho distributing depot for
all supplies for these places. All
stamps. stamped paper, cards, stamp
Cd envelopes and other supplies for
use in the offices of the county viii
70 supplied from the Oskaloosa post
ofice. All quarterly reports from dis
uict offices will be rendered to the
skaloosa office instead Of direct to
the post office department at Washing
tan and all reports and accounts VIII
be- audited and checked for veritica-
5i6n b. the Oskaloosa post office be-
lore submission to department heads
at Washington.
Postmaster Henry S. Rosecrans re-
ceived official notification from head
quarters Monday of the promotion OF
the Oskaloosa Office to the rank and
place of central accounting office"
Supplies and equipment for the new
department are being forwarded for
immediate USE From date of October
/. all district Offices in Mahaska coun-
ty will have the bulk of their business
with the Oskaloosa Office in place of
with Washington, d. c. This will ex-
pedite business and work for the bet
ter efficiency of the local service. For
example. Barnes City or Taintor, the
most distant offices from the distri-
buting center can obtain practically
instant service from Oskaloosa and
always by return mail, where, if requi.
sition is sent to Washington, as in the
former system, several days must
elapse before returns are possible.
Moreover Oskaloosa has telephone
communication with all of its subor.
yiinate offices and is accessible day or
night, in constant touch with all its
dependencies, as it were. The change
or the improvement is made in the eff
fort to increase efficiency and to rem
der an improved public service.
Change of the system is thrown up
on the local Office at this time by
doubling up work on the present force
but as the new work expands addition
al help will be furnished and what
ever equipment is necessary will be
forthcoming. For the time being, how
ever, the work created by the change
viii be cared for by the present Of
fice force.
Offices in the county placed under
the Oskaloosa Office accountable to the
central supervision are Barnes City,
Beacon, Cedar, Evans, Fremont, Givin,
Lacey, Lakonta. Leighton. New Shar-
on, Oskaloosa, Rose Hill, Taintor, Ii
oga, University Park and Wright.
This will mean a big increase in
the volume of business handled in the
local Office in the course of the year
and a big increase in the amount Of
local mail arriving for the considera,
ton of the Central Office.
Responsibilities connected with the
Office are also multiplied with the in
a-'pnration of the changes. 1t means
tma7lv that the Oskaloosa Office is
responsible for the condcct and
~cv Of the sixteen offices in the
'-t~jct, Oskaloosa local office in,
lrded.
Orders for the change, effective in
u Of the subordinate offices as well
as in the central Office were issued for
IN effective, October first, and the
new order Of things is now in force
and operation.