Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-02
WHAT Your Number?

THE post office has come 20 the people for help IN
i delivering the mails
1t ddn have far 10 go. The post office the peoples
business and mighty close 70 its cusomers-so close that
the government assigned it wartime chores that have
nothing do with selling stamps delivering letters.
The post office today sells war bonds registers aliens,
collects the automobile tax, distributes merchants
ration charts and has undertaken registration of
l25Ooo006 persons for The next ration book
Along with all this, ) still conducts rs enormous
savings ana handles free the mail OF up to TO-,
100000 soldiers and sailors,
And with fewer employees
Many carriers and clerks have gone INTO the army
and navy Nany into factories for wages tho post office
doesn't PAY And INTO the morale-raislng military
postal where their experience obvatcs the
sity Of training
\IoUR carrier may be the man YOU missed most when
/ he Went away
But the man the post office misses most is the
= station stIbatlt.
St0tio. dS', 5,'olS are anonymous men who in
city the of Detroit have mastered the difficult
schCpc the trade word for separation of etters).
They must be able pick up any letter addressed to
Detroit look swiftly at street and number and quickly
place pgeonhole from which will be sent to
of the so neghbohood substaons for the final separa
ton that will give each carrier all of the letters for the
residents his route.
If they are not able to do this Is times minute on
annual tests they longer qualify station ds
t17Jptolg.
There more than 1000 separations that these
must memorize letter addressed to Grand River
might be delivered from any of substatons, letter
addressed to Woodward avenue from any of six.
The letter that distributor puts in the wrong pigeon
hole may be delayed full day.
There not enough distributors, and time
train
SO the post office has worked out simple system for
the largest us cities in the nation.
IN DETROIT the post office has been divided into
50 districts l5cO t0y lock boz pdtroHS) and each has
been assigned number that is become part of the
address Of each resident and business establishment
within that district Here's sample of such address
Detroit Times.
1925 Times Square,
Detroit 20 Mich
Unframed clerks, obviously separate letters that
numbered the the pgeonhoes into which
they're to be placed.
That's why you asked never to write give your
address a address envelope without
including your postal district number, and always use
their postal district numbers when YOU write others
Your postman will leave note in your maboX tell
ing you your number if you bulk mailer post office
clerk will be assigned to correct your list.
The post office doesn't expect big maers to destroy
stencils plates just requests that they be corrected
they and as new ones are added
That's the nice part about it. It's voluntary.
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IN GERMANY you might go to concentration camp
l for emitting your number.
Here your letter might just be day later in deliver
Here you know you're being good fellow and hepin
the post office TO spread its forces to sell bonds
distribute ration cards and do the other wartn
chores there's no other organization to do