Evening star., 1942-08-23
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phaec World Its Interests and PeopcReview Of
the Stamp Prcss-Lst of Local Meetings.
Bv James Waldo Fanccn.

the Adjutant Generals once, as
follows:
On March 10, 1910, after lengthy
study by officisls Of the Post Once
and War Departments. an agree
ment was entered into by the Post
master General and the Secretary of
War, providing for an Army Postal
Service to operate both during per-
iods Of peacetime field training and
during wartime emergencies. This
agreement clearly defined the duties
and responsibilities of the two de-
partments, and field manual for
the guidance Of Army personnel en-
gagged in handling mail was pre-
pared, published and distributed to
all Army commands.
"The principal matters covered by
the agreement are: The furnishing
by the Army of mail transportation
between the points where mail Is
assembled and made ready for de-
livery to the Army postal Con-
centration Center) and the points
where such mail is actually turned
over to the Army (Base Post Off1ce):
the maintenance by the Army OF
a card index for supplying the COM
olete current addresses of military
personnel; the formation Of a postal
corps manned by officers drawn
from experienced postal employees;
the erection by the Army at camps
and posts of buildings for postal
purposes in accordance with Post
once Department specifications,
and the establishment in the War
Department of an Army postal
service through which all postal
matters are handled by liaison with
the Post ONCE Department.
This agreement received its first
test at posts and camps during the
Army augmentation program fol-
lowing enactment of the Selective
Service Act, and in the field during
Army maneuvers held in 1940 and
1941. It received its first test IN
oversee theaters when troops were
sent to occupy the leased bases.
Under War Department regula-
tions the Arm Postal Service is an
activity of the adjutant general S
department and that department
has established in Washington,
D. c., facilities to supervise the op-
Grafton of the Army Postal Service
and to maintain a continuing
haison with the Post Once De-
partment. At each service COM
mand and department headquarters
outside Washington the adjutant
generals section thereof maintains
Iiaison with local postal authorlues
en- Army Postal Service.
Under the adjutant general al
Washington, D. c., is an Army
Postal Service stated by Army Oh
ficers, most of whom are former
post ONCE inspectors.
I'm addition to the postal offlcers
on duty in Washington, the Ad-
i1tant Generals Office, each Army,
Army Corps, Army division, and
each post or camp with personnel
In excess of 5000, has its own Army
postal officer. These officers 1or
the most part have been drawn
from experienced civil postal en-
ployes. i.-
1.-THE existing corps of Army postal
officers is now being augmented by
selecting enlisted men with postal
background and then giving them
a course of training in an Officer
Candidate School. Upon graduation
the candidate is commissioned a
second lieutenant in the Army Pos
tai Service.
I'm addition. experienced post Office
inspectors, serving both as Army
eficers and in civilian capacities,
are now on duty with troops over
seas.
Mail for our armed forces is
brought together by the Post Office
Department at designated post Of
hces: there the mail for given mill
tary force is made up for the regi-
ments or other separate military
units sometimes as small as q
company. The Post Office Depart
ment then delivers the mail to the
authorized representatives of the
Army. Thereafter the Army Posta
Service distributes the mail tt
smaller military units and thef
causes it to be delivered to the
addressee.
Mail received at Army pos
offices for delivery to the Army il
of two classes-Q sufficiently ad
dressed mail, and (2) mail requiring
directory service. Sufficiently ad
dressed mail, after it has been mad'
up by the post Office for regiment
and other separate military uits
is called for at the Army post of
fee by a mail orderly who take
the mail to his headquarters an,
separates it for smaller militar
units. Orderlies from the smalle
units call at such headquarters an
obtain the mail. The orderly fror
the smaller units delivers the ma
so obtained to the soldier des:g
mated as the person in charge c
quarters where the addresses are 10
Gated. The soldier in charge c
bcI All tul IIit IIdll
the addresses at mail-call or g
other specified periods during tn
day.
"Insuf1iciently addressed mail an
mail for forwarding to departed pei
sonnel received at a base post Off
is sent to the Army locator car
file TO have the correct address sur
piled. This unit consists of an inde
card for each soldier. This cal
shows the soldiers name and GU
rent address In full. his Army seri
number, rank and organization, ar
the Army Postal Service keeps tn
file current to supply promptly co
rect addresses on the incorrectly a,
dressed mail.
Outgoing mail from camps az
posts is placed by the sender
Army collection boxes located abo
the camp or post from which poin
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