The American Postal Service
Louis Melius
Preface to The American Postal Service
This little work on postal affairs aims to familiarize postal employes and others with the operations of the Post Office Department in all its varied and numerous details. No attempt was made to cover the wide field of postal activity and inquiry for which a much larger book and much greater space would be required. It is simply meant to be a book of reference, a sort of hand-book on postal subjects for busy people who may not care to read lengthy accounts or stories which a few paragraphs might sufficiently explain, or care to wrestle with columns of figures which are best given in official reports and chiefly valuable to public men for legislative purposes, for comparison and survey.
All necessary postal knowledge of immediate public interest is herein set forth in such compact shape as to acquaint the reader with what he might want to know, or direct his inquiry to sources of wider information if the desire was not satisfied with the reference thereto which this work might afford. In general it will be found amply sufficient for all ordinary purpose as the scope of subjects is as wide as the active operations of the Department at present include.
The special articles referring to subjects of general postal interest cover a considerable range of inquiry and deal more fully with those matters which are but briefly mentioned in that portion devoted to the purely business details of the Department. Much of this material is new and all of it treated so as to interest the reader. These articles on general postal topics in connection with the other matter herewith given, relating to the service, may please some one here and there and perhaps justify the publication of this little contribution to the literature of the time.
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Read by: | Multiple readers |
Length: | 5 hours 13 minutes |
Type: | Solo reading |
Media: | MP3 CD |
Package: | CD security sleeve |
Item No.: | CD-1320 |
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Book Coordinator: Larry Wilson
Meta Coordinator: J. M. Smallheer
Proof Listener: Nick Bulka
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Cover: Design by D. S. Harvey
Inset: Seal of the former United States Department of the Post Office
Inset: Former logo of the US Mail by jmirvish
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Table of Contents
Track | Title | Reader | Length |
1 | 00 - Biographical Sketches, Preface, Dedication and Organization | Larry Wilson | 0:18 |
2 | 01 - Chapter 1 Postal History | Michele Fry | 0:28 |
3 | 02 - Chapter II Questions of Finance | Fred Abboud | 0:09 |
4 | 03 - Chapter III Department Operations - Part One | Michele Fry | 0:17 |
5 | 04 - Chapter III Department Operations - Part Two | Michele Fry | 0:22 |
6 | 05 - Chapter III Department Operations - Part Three | Michele Fry | 0:20 |
7 | 06 - Chapter IV Special Articles - Part One | Michele Fry | 0:13 |
8 | 07 - Chapter IV Special Articles - Part Two | Michele Fry | 0:17 |
9 | 08 - Chapter IV Special Articles - Part Three | Matt Williams | 0:16 |
10 | 09 - Chapter IV - Special Articles - Part Four | Matt Williams | 0:12 |
11 | 10 - Chapter IV - Special Articles - Part Five | Michele Fry | 0:14 |
12 | 11 - Chapter IV - Special Articles - Part Six | Michele Fry | 0:19 |
13 | 12 - Chapter IV - Special Articles - Part Seven | Michele Fry | 0:21 |
14 | 13 - Chapter IV - Special Articles - Part Eight | Michele Fry | 0:24 |
15 | 14 - Chapter V - Miscellaneous Matters - Part One | Fred Abboud | 0:25 |
16 | 15 - Chapter V - Miscellaneous Matters - Part Two | Fred Abboud | 0:17 |
17 | 16 - Chapter V - Miscellaneous Matters - Part Three | Rosie Roberts | 0:13 |
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