CHAPTER IV

_Special Articles_

Stamp Manufacture, Bureau Engraving and Printing 46 Post Office Inspectors 48 Railway Mail Service 48 Parcel Post, Opposition Thereto 49 Interesting Facts. Postmasters General 53 Withdrawal of Letters from the Mail 54 Handling of the Mail in Department 54 Cost Accounting 55 Cleansing Mail Bags 55 Farm-to-Table Movement 55 Postal Service in Alaska 57 Standardization of Post Offices 58 Postal Savings Circulars in Foreign Tongues 58 A Patriotic Editor 59 Damage, Parcel Post Mail 59 Opinion of Daniel Webster on Mail Extension 60 Blind Woman on Pay Rolls 61 Wanamaker--Four Postal Reforms 62 The Rural Carrier as a Weather Man 64 New Box Numbering System, Rural Routes 65 Wireless Telephones, Rural Service 68 Parcel Post Exhibits at County Fairs 70 The Great Express Service of the Government 71 The Telephone and Parcel Post in Cooperation 72 Speeding up the Service--Rural Mails 73 Training Public Officials 74 For the Benefit of the Fourth Class Postmasters 76 Public Work and Private Control 77 Protecting the Public Records 78 Registry and Insurance Service, 1916 78 Readjustment Rate, Second Class Mail 79 Peculiar Customs, European Rural Delivery 80 What Was a Newspaper in 1825? 81 Women in the Post Office Department 82 Railroad Accidents, Construction of Cars 83 Public Ownership of Telegraph and Telephone--Burleson 83 Liquor Carried by the Mails 84 How the Post Office Department Helps the Farmer 85 Expediting the Mails on Star Routes 87 Abraham Lincoln Postmaster in 1837 88 A Central Accounting Office for Each County 88 Millions of Money for Good Roads 89 $14,550,000 for Rural Post Roads 91 Mail Extensions by Air and Motor Truck Routes 92 Care Required in Preparing Contracts 93 Birthday American Postal Service 93 List of Postmasters General 94