Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-13
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Easter week. with a heavy mail
load, the cuts will not be as
drastic as they otherwise would
be or as they will be the fol-
lowing week If service cuts still
are in effect.
! The closing throughout the
country means suspension OF
service over the week end for
most of the $4,000 post Offices
Those remaining open were the
fourth class Offices. which USUAL
ly are run by storekeepers in
rural areas.
Contract Stations Open
Contract stations-there are
81 in Washington and additional
ones in the suburbs-also were
open. The Saturday hours were
from 8 am. to IL. First instruc-
|. tons to these stations were not
to accept parcel post. but this
was countermanded this morn
ing. In addition they sell stamps
and weigh letters and packages
sell money orders and handle
Registered and certified mail.
/ Congress got its mail as usual
and there were deliveries to the
Pentagon and other Govern
. ment agencies that wanted 1t
) Congress runs its own post Of
fees. The dispatch of mail TO
Congress and Government agen-
cies is handled by a special serv-
ice set up some time ago by ex-
Iecutive order.
Internal Revenue Service off,
lcials pointed out that the tax
payers should not be affected by
the postal conditions. They said
income tax returns postmarked
Monday, April Is. would be &C
cepted. 1t was also indicated
that they would be slow to PEN
alize a taxpayer If this postmark
deadline was not met.
Retail Businesses Hit
The effect Of no Saturday de-
lliveries in the business district
was minimized by the fact many
Offices are closed. Retailers, open
as usual on Saturdays. were the
chief ones hit.
| One department store which
gets it's mail from a box at the
main post Office. said the chief
difficulty would be met by the
absence of second class mail. 1t
customarily receives from $50 to
300 publications. catalogs or
merchandise samples. Not get
ting them today will mean an
extra load to handle on Monday.
it was said.
Washington is an important
publishing city and a number of
publishing concerns were hit.
Mel Ryder, editor of the Army
Times publications. said what
the Post Office has done is a
very serious matter" He re-
ferred to it as a silly, stupid
business.
Because of the restrictions on
sorting mail in the Post Offices
to first class mail and daily
newspapers. he said his weekly
papers would "be lying piled up
all over the United States" He
said the company's wholesalers
have been used to getting their
papers by certain trains and he
feared the schedules would not
be met.
/ The papers are the Army
Times. Air Force Times and
Navy Times.
The company also has Gus
tomarily obtained its mail on
Saturday from a lock box at a
branch Post ONCE station. Ar
arrangements to get it today from
the City Post Office fell through.
Ordinarily a skeleton crew works
Saturdays handling editorial
matter-stories. releases from
military bases, etc.-but today
this was not received.
The Bureau Of National
Affairs said its weekly Labor
Relations Reporter was mate
rally affected. Its closing time
for editorial matter had to be
advanced in order that the
publication could be printed to
reach the post Office before last
midnight. Ordinarily it gets to
the post Office around 2 to
O'Clock Saturday morning.
Another publication. the week
ly TRAFFIC World, said it ordi-
narily goes to press Thursday,
but had to advance press time
by "a hours.
1 AAoAoPOib AOpiCS, Wcckly
publication of the American
Trucking Associations. ordinarily
goes to the post Office on Sun
days. 1t also was affected.
Howard johnson, assistant
superintendent at Ransdell, Inc.
which prints the publication
said delivery of the copies to
the post Office would be held ur
until Monday. He said there
are 10000 copies Of the issue
] These publications are affected
by the rule that second clasS
matter. aside from daily news
papers. will not be processed in
the post Office during the week
end.
Flood Expected Monday
The Washington Office of the
McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. said
the Saturday deliveries of mail
.