"As St. Louis celebrated the laying of the corner stone of its $4,500,000 Post Office yesterday. Parade of the 2700 postal employes and their equipment as they marched up market street at Twelfth Blvd."
"Red, white and blue self-service postal units at Crestwood and Northwest Shopping Centers will be dedicated Tuesday. They provide 24-hour-a-day service seven days a week, including stamp, post card, envelope and insurance vending, letter and parcel sales, bill and coin exchangers and free telephone service to the Post Office for information. The government is building 100 of these units at
"Christmas greetings with her mail are received by Mrs. S. Whitman Cordes, 5318 Englewood Ave., Lucas-Hunt Village, by Mary Renee Ritchart, new sub-carrier on the Normandy route. Frank, veteran mail carrier of 30 years, looks on."
"The get-it-yourself idea is building as a pilot project. Designed to provide better service in high-rise, multi-tenanted office buildings, it enables tenants to get their mail two hours before normal delivery time. Postmasters from three states will be looking at the project here this week."
"Paying off in a big way this year is the Post Office's annual 'Mail Early for Christmas' campaign. The rush is picking up steam at the Main Post Office here with a record number of letters and parcels predicted for this Christmas season."
Containers filled with items are held in the post office. Two men are seen organizing these items. A sign in the background reads, "Hampers & heavy items not to be displayed from platform on day of sale."
A mailman is seen collecting mail from two St. Louisans in bikes. A sign in the background near the public mailbox reads, "Closed. Hand mail to Mailman."
"Parcel post by conveyor belts will make for more efficient handling of mail, postal and Terminal Railroad Association officials said yesterday. The new $4,000,000 conveyor belt system goes into operation today. At right is a new Terminal building, where 70 railway cars can back in to unload parcel post. An overpass crosses Clark Avenue near Seventeenth Street with conveyor belts taking the parcel post to the Post Office."
"This branch post office building at South Broadway and Mott Avenue, which will serve the Carondelet area, will be officially dedicated Friday, Oct. 12 Exterior walls are light gray brick and service and box lobbies have quarry tile floors area of 9300 square feet. A concrete paved off-street parking area for patrons is adjacent to the building."
