Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1919 — ACTION TO IMPROVE POSTAL FACILITIES. [ARTICLE]

ACTION TO IMPROVE POSTAL FACILITIES.

Joint action by the postoffice department and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States to extend and improve maid facilities and eliminate delays was announced yesterday. Following a conference at the department at Washington of postmasters of the fifty (largest mail centers, handling approximately half of the mail handled in the country, fit was agreed that the national Chamber of Commerce would undertake to have each chamber in those centers organize a committee on postal facilities to study existing conditions and then confer with the local postmaster, who will 'be instructed by the department to co-operate to the fullest extent.