Evening star., 1943-05-30

VeyOT-BeneTdl anu a postmaster
General, he is rightfully entitled to
all the honors bestowed upon him
by way of our postage stamps. We
find his portrait appearing upon at
least 16 separate values, and especi-
ally unique is the circumstance that
his is the only likeness found upon
the lowest and the highest values,
namely the 12-cent and the IS
stamps"
The Army and Navy Journal for
May said:
Modern warfare has given full
play to the imagination and skilled
planning of officers charged with the
responsibility of keeping up the
morale of Army personnel and their
relatives through perfecting of the
Army postal service.
Delivery of Army mail at the
proper destination is difficult task,
yet this is being done with increas-
ing facility even when an Army unit
is moved to several APO areas with
in few weeks. This is accom-
plished through the postmasters at
New York, New Orleans and San
Francisco being notified daily of any
changes of location of units. When
mail reaches division headquar-
ters 1t then goes forward with sup
plies to the various units.
For the operation of APO post
offices, hundreds of which are be-
yond the limits of the United States.
training schools at Fort Washing
ton, D. c., and Westchester, Pa.
Only men who were in the postal
service before entering the Army are
used in this special line, and there
are more of them in the Army than
can be used. Card catalogues of
personnel are kept in the post Offices
at all ports of embarkation with the
result that although 13 per cent of
the mail is misdirected, 81 per cent
OF the wrongly addressed mail
reaches the proper destination and
individual. AS 3O,0O0,O0O pieces Of
mail are handled daily to and from
APOs the interest and the activity
of the postal personnel are evident.
The percentage of delayed and
unbelievable mail will be cut down
when writer's of letters learn to in
clude the serial number of the ad-
dressee on the envelope. Letters to
dozen John Smiths will then reach
the John Smith for whom partic-
ular letter is intended, wherever he
may be. The task of the Army
Postal Service is equal to furnishing
mail for a city of 100000. Only
American personnel handle Ameri-
| can mail in the British Empire.
"V-mall, the use of which is saw
ing much space for supplies, is pro-
ceSsed at New York and San Fran
cisco only, in the United States. and
is being sent to Iceland, Hawaii, the
Southwest Pacific, India, North
Africa, Egypt and England. Plane
and convoy facilities make it un-
necessary to use this method for
mail going to Panama and Alaska.
Official letters and documents are
processed by this method in the
Pentagon Building of the War De-
partment. The necessary equipment
has now been installed in North
Africa and V-mail is being received
from that area. A recent letter was
received six days after mailing.
Eight days are needed for delivery to
the South Pacific.
The money order business has
gone far beyond the expectations of
the Post Office Department. Most
OF 1t is due to the armed forces send
ing money to the home folk rather
| than the expected reverse 1t is not
generally known that money orders
may be sent to all battle areas, and
1t is possible by existing rules to cash
them at any post Office.
An interesting feature of delivery
OF mail in North Africa is that much
OF 1t is sorted en- route in planes by
the postal personnel and some of it
IS dropped from the planes, in imi-
tatlon OF railway service in the
United States. Several planes are
used there in the postal service.
While no decision has been
reached, consideration is being given
by the War Department to allowing
each soldier to receive one package
month from home without secur-
ing the approval of commanding
officer"
Recent slogan meter indicia of
Canada include: Garden for Vic
tory Hold High the Torch of
Freedom Safeguard Manpower,
Speed Victory Production" Brave
Men Shall Not Die Because 1 Fall
tered and "Canadiens-francais, al
dons-nous!"
Prices in the new Scott Special
lied Catalogue of United States
stamps will have to be revised up
ward as a result of the recent sale
OF the William West collection.
Some items brought as much as Is
times previous listings.
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Fo-
land, Mexico. Peru and China-all
these, incredible as it may seem, are
in the State of Maine.
Hamilton A. Hooper, philatelic
editor of the Baltimore Sun, writes:
chronological philately is the high
sounding name for collecting stamps
depicting the members of the vari-
Gus races composing the human
family, together with their own par
ticular traits and modes of life. 1t
is surprising to discover to what ex-
tent this study can be carried and
how comprehensively stamps picture
the peoples of the world"
Nugent M. Clougher is the author
OF an essay on the stamps of Canada
printed in the March number of the
Journal of the Royal Society.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows
Tuesday evening at e-Collectors
Club of Washington, Thomson
School, Twelfth street NV, Pro-
gram, exhibition and bourse.
Tuesday evening at 8-East Cap
itol Stamp Club, Eastern High
School.
STAMPS AND COINS.