Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-12
TO HAVE
GREAT CHAIN Of
POSTAL STATIONS
New Connecticut Avenue
Branch Added to List of
Classified Offices Here.

Plans for giving the National Cap
ital the greatest chain of branch post
offices of any city in the United States
took a step forward today with the
announcement that a new classified
postal station soon is to be opened at
1920 Connecticut avenue.
The new station will be the latest
of the carrier stations" to be estab-
lished by the Washington city post
office, and will have thirty carriers
operating from it over a territory ex-
tending from 10th street to Rock
creek and from Q street on the north
tc the Mall on the south.
The city post Office now has a series
of carrier stations, including the U
Street station, with forty-seven car
riers; the Park Road station. with
twenty-five carriers; tAe Takoma
Georgetown and Brookland stations.
The station to be opened this month
at Brightwood will have twelve car
riers.
The postal stations at Cherrydale
and Clare ndon, Va, which come un-
der the jurisdiction of the Washing
ton Office, are both carrier stations.
3
miles of the District line. petitioned
the Washington Office to come under
its jurisdiction.
Finest Branch OfHce In City.
Contract for the big new station at
1920 Connecticut avenue has been let,
and the station will be ready for oc-
cupancy soon. When equipped it will
constitute one of the finest branch
stations in the District, If not the
finest. although the new station at
Brightwood is fine one.
The Connecticut avenue station is
to have floor space of more than
2,10O square feet. The station will
superseded the Dupont postal station.
which will be removed. The Con-
necticut avenue station fronts on the
avenue, and extends through to Jeffer-
son place, affording ideal facilities for
handling the large business expected.
The establishment of carrier sta
tions is comparatively new thing
for Washington, although some of the
other larger cities of the country have
had them in operation for several
years.
The U street station here is the
largest of, the local carrier stations,
with its forty-seven carriers who re-
port to the station each morning for
work. instead of going to the main
city post Office.
System Speeds Mail Delivery.
This system affords a saving of
time and effort and results in better
mail facilities to the neighborhoods
served by the branch stations.
Not only is a convenient place Of
fered for buying postage stamps and
mailing letters and parcels, but bet
ter service is given patrons by rea-
son of the nearness of the carriers to
their routes.
The Post Office Department is in full
sympathy with the Washington city
post Office in it's efforts to make the
local Office a model of it's kind in the
country. 1t is the intention of all
concerned to make the local postal
service an example of what an up-to-
date postal service in large city
may be.
In this endeavor nothing is regard
ed as more necessary than a COM
plete chain of full classified stations
throughout the National Capital.
with as many of them as possible
equipped as carrier stations, from
which letter carriers may operate to
the immediate neighborhoods.