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A photo from the Richmond Regional Processing and Distribution Center shows water-damaged mail dated July 28 that was photographed in the truck yard on Oct. 4.
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An Oct. 4 photo from the Richmond Regional Processing and Distribution Center shows a “lack of mail handlers to move sorted packages to dispatch dock.”
An Oct. 4 photo from the Richmond Regional Processing and Distribution Center shows the congested collections dock.
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A photo from the Richmond Regional Processing and Distribution Center on Oct. 3 shows mail left around the processing equipment.
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An OIG photograph from Oct. 5 at the Richmond Regional Processing and Distribution Center shows machinable mail in manual processing.
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A chart compares workhours, overtime and total piece of mail handled.
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3-1942: R.F.D. is out--Citizens of Lakeside take down their Rural Free Delivery mail boxes which have given way to the small metal boxes on porches, due to the change to city delivery on account of annexation.
10-19-1951 (cutline): What law of gravity?--Mrs. R.L. Mattox has a little fun with the mail box that slows motorists passing the Mattox home, on Route 35 in Prince George County, south of Petersburg. Snake charming wasn't really necessary, though, Mattox confided. An hour's welding job made the old log chain stand up. Saw it in a magazine, they confessed.
06-09-1949 (cutline): Carl A. Throckmorton (left) shows Postmaster Fergus McRee new mail box. This box and others in cartons are among 100 new ones being installed here.
09-12-1950 (cutline): Temporary stop for Uncle Same--No toy but the real thing--for the time being--is the barrel mail box from which little Sherry Gilman is taking a letter. The box on Honaker Avenue near Hanover serves a new residential development until the 6500 block Hanover Ave. is completed.
04-28-1949: Improved rural mailboxes
04-28-1949 (cutline): Rural mail boxes in Richmond area cited as good.
05-21-1959 (cutline): J.S. Soyars of the Richmond Post Office shows what a different the mail box can make for carriers on the city's 12 rural routes. This week is Mail Box Improvement Week. Postmaster Fergus McRee wishes his patrons would take it to heart--put their names on their boxes. Rural carrieres travel 499 miles daily ont he 12 routes, serving 5,511 boxes.