Looking Back #54 - Curtailing (US) Mail Service

Curtailing (US) Mail Service

Drastic changes are in development affecting
the collection and delivery of mail matter,
particularly in the larger cities, with many
small box collections being discontinued, or
limited to one or two a day.

Many of the boxes are to be removed from
present locations and soon will be found only
on main thoroughfares. Carrier deliveries
are being reduced, and plans are to confine
them only to the morning hours, with doubling
up of routes.

These changes will affect not alone the
residential districts, but business areas as
well. All part of a general curtailment due
to conditions brought about by war activities.

- George B. Sloane
Sloane's Column
Stamps
September 26, 1942

Note: Thus ended the twice daily residential
and business mail deliveries which I grew up with.
Somehow or other, no one remembered to restart
them after World War II ended. We had gotten
used to it like so many other things which never
returned after the war -- like free sticks in the
ice cream on a stick!