The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-26
NeW Airn1ail Letter DeliUery Plan tOBeG Great Time SaUer'

WaterburianS can cut as must as eight hours and 40 minutes from the delivery time of an Air Mail letter by mailing it at certain times during the day, figures on an Air Mail time schedule released by Postmaster Charles A. Babin prove.
 Although the eight hours and 40 minutes saved is on letter travell- ing from Waterbury to San Fran cisco, over 2,600 air miles, great deal of time can also be saved on letters travelling shorter distances. Three hours and 35 minutes can be saved on letters going from here t Cleveland, less than 500 air miles away.
 The time saved by mailing letters at the proper time takes into con- sideration only the elapsed time from the hour of leaving this city to the hour of arriving in the des- tination city. These figures do not consider the amount of time letter may remain in a mail box here be- fore it is picked up or the amount of time it remains at the destination post office before final delivery.
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 An air mail letter leaving Water bury at 4:55 P. M. will arrive at San Francisco the following morning. only 14 hours and 50 minutes later. On the other hand, letter leaving here at 7:55 in the morning will take 21 hours and Is minutes to reach the west coast city. arriving there at 5:1O A. M. Thus, a letter can theor- ettcally be mailed nine hours later here and arrive at San Francisco only two hours and 35 minutes after the first.
 Even more amazing is the fact that letter to San Francisco that leaves the city at 1:40 P. M, three hours and Is minutes before the 4:55 P. M. letter, arrives on the west coast at 1:10 P. M. the following day, five hours and 25 minutes after the 4:55 P. M. letter. The postmaster ex- plained this tremendous difference in time by stating that air mall to the west coast leaving here at 4:55 P. M. is carried aboard an express plane from New York.
 Letters sent to Cleveland at 7:55 A. M. will take four hours and 45 minutes, and those sent at 4:55 P. M. will take four hours and p min- utes. On the other hand those leav- ing here at 10:40 A. M. will take eight hours and 15 minutes before they arrive at Cleveland. Five Hours to Chicago Another city to which the 4:55 P. M. delivery makes the fastest time is Chicago. These letters take only five hours and A minutes compared to five hours and 45 minu- teS for the 7:55 A. M. delivery; eight hours and 45 minutes at 10:40 A. M and 10 hours and Is minutes at $40 P. M.
 Shorter savings in time can be effected on Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Kansas City deliveries. To Pitts burgh, letters at TAO P. M. take six hours and 35 minutes; at 6:4$ P. M they take eight hours and Is minutes and at 11:05 P. M. they take seven hours and 40 minutes.
 Cincinnati letters at TAO P. M. will take nine hours and 10 minutes while those at 11:05 P. M. take one hour and 40 minutes longer. Ons hour can be saved by Kansas City Air Mail at 1:40 P. M. over that al | 11:O5 P. M, the latter taking + hours.
 Carrying time for mail to othel large cities in the country is, Balti- more, five hours, g minutes; Miami sight hours, 25 minutes; St. Louis II hours, 55 minutes; Denver 1: hours, five minutes; Phoenix, 2( hours, 55 minutes, and Los Angeles from 19 hours, 50 minutes to 21 hour. 10 minutes.