IIIf UD Ec Wednesday, August 19, 1 959 THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE Heavy mail volume handled by local About 5,500 letters Post office each day. counts for 3,000 of w makes up the incoming or outgoing, is fore it leaves the office. Let us follow letter you may drop Mail coming into town ac- hese, balance of 2,500. the course of a into the Post Office staff go through Williams Lake |straightening cancellation. out letters while outgoing mail The postmaster said that less Each letter, whether | than 50 percent of the incoming handled several times be- letters have box numbers on e ela lthem. This was all right a few RES § box, instead of going to the|years ago when the town was 3) St front desk it is put in its appro-|smaller and he knew everyone mail box and see what proceq.|PTiate box number. |personally, but now Willian ee ure it goes through in being|__ There is daily service between | Lake has grown to quite a size : processed. Vancouver, Kamloops, Winiams | and there are a lot of strangers You drop the envelope into|Lake, Quesnel and Prince|here. This problem becomes the box. From here it is taken| George, so a letter mailed in| acute, especially when the letter for air mail north, 1 p.m. air mail south and 5:30 for surface mail south. Your letter is then put through the cancelling machine which marks the stamp to show it has been Processed. At this stage all mail is sorted into bins designating its destination. If your letter is bound for Van- couver it is put in the Van- couver bin and at clearing time is put in the mail sack for the south-bound airmail and is on the plane at 1 p.m. The fol- lowing day this letter is dropped through the mail slot in your friend’s front door in the coas- tal city. VARIOUS CARRIERS Mail coming into Williams Lake comes by truck, train or plane. When the sacks enter the post office they are emptied and the mail sorted into the bins showing different offices in| this district or to general de- livery, or a bin marked “ box.” From here letters are taken to the front desk and sorted in al- phabetical order into bins until a receiver comes to claim them. If such a letter is not claimed within two weeks, it is sent to the return address or dead let- ter department in Vancouver. If a letter is addressed to a 4 DAILY Sportscasts CKCQ 8:10 a.m. 12.25 p.m. 7:05 p.m. 10:10 p.m. Enjoy SPORTS Daily on CKCQ DIAL 570 ATTENTION— SPORTS CLUBS Leave sports scores, stories, etc., at Village Radio & Appliance for broadcast on CKCQ. Williams Lake before 10 a.m., addressed to Quesnel or Prince George, will arrive at its destin- ation and be sorted there by 3 pm. Likewise mail coming from either of these points would be in your box by 3 Pp. m Mail for and is in a wife’s name. There are seven Moore's and six Johnson listed under boxes in the local Office, so that when a letter comes in with the wife's first § name on it and no box number, the situation is perplexing. To llustrate this point further, a former employee at the post office wrote the following verse. Dawson Creek Places further north have to go to the coast and be put on the Vancouver - Whitehorse plane. However, when the new airport is in operation, it may be that daily service between here and larger towns in the north will be established. If a letter bound for Eastern CANCELLING THE STAMPS Due to the shortage of boxes at Wil- liams Lake Post Office, a large per- centage of the 3,000 pieces of mail ar- riving daily is passed through the THE MAIL GIRL’S PLEA By Gwen Bradly general delivery wicket. Here clerk Miss Maureen Stewart cancels stamps as Postmaster Cece Rhodes looks on. There are score And More and Moor and Moore Johnson’s by the Page 7 Most of us will dispense a “bit of advice” at the drop of a tam o’shanter, but few of us ever fol- low it as eagerly. Yet a few chance words can prove very for- tunate sometimes. Years ago, an unknown young author had his book accepted, and the publisher asked which he preferred, a hundred pounds for the copyright or a royalty arrangement. The young man chose the hundred pounds, but while the publisher went out to prepare the contract, someone whispered, “Yd take the royalty if I were you.” Swinging around, the author observed an elderly clerk, al- ready back at his work. The author didn’t take long to decide. He went back into the Publisher’s office and settled for royalties. LAST-MINUTE ADVICE NETS AUTHOR FORTUNE The book, Mines” by Henry Rider Haggard, became an all-time best-seller, and what that advice cost the company “King Solomon’s no one has dared to compute. Now here’s a “bit of advice” you'll find worth heeding. The easiest, safest and surest way to avoid financial stress and strain is to make regular deposits in a Bank of Montreal savings count. need or opportunity arises, you ac. Then when unexpected have the ready cash waiting for you. You'll be amazed at how handy it can prove. To start your account, visit the Williams Lake or Lac La Hache branch of the B of M soon. Bob Ly- wood, the accountant there, will show you how easy it is, and how profitable in the years to come. Canada is posted late and mis-|S°™e are Rich and some are They all have husbands, wives;the minute they arrive at work ses the plane from Williams| rr i the be and mothers, until they leave. They well Lake, it will also not make an number 0 a Fathers, uncles sisters, brothers,}earn their pay, says the post- GREYHOUND eastbound aircraft from Van-|maxe Borkowski or Lesowski, |Is this his wife or is it others? | master, couver, and therefore may be|.. scieé ar a. No number of the box. Mai istri announces a h 16 ty ~ An Kryzanowski or some other ski, Mail for 18 other district GENERAL CHANGE IN as much as ours late. A + re ke i: bi i g] Vil- iN zs [AN - letters under eight ounces in| Oh! Wotzke is the boxski? And this one shares a box with} #ices goes through the Wi . FOR ALL s eight ounces in] xo number of the bor a liams Lake branch. This covers| | SCHEDULES : weight go by air mail. And that one shares a box with{# atea within a 40-mile radius, ROUTES IN BRITISH POOR RELATIONS With 0 many Groome’s and Tim, There are 715 boxes in the COLUMBIA Postmaster Cece Rhodes says 0 owlers ke Or is it Mike or John or Slim?) Uilding now and 400 mGre “are effective SEPT. 8, 1959 that there are a few business] D® 1S Sure to make some| vo ber of the bow. needed and already spoken for.| Mguyject to consent of _the houses that do not know nor howlers No less than $00 names come| Public Utilities Commission) s a ; « erowlers ; iv Any objecti y- be filed seem to care what the rates are | and get a crop of srowlers, So, please, do hear the mail| Under general delivery. rend oie Supeumnengeat of on letters weighing over one|N® Dumber of the box. . gins vat ting| REVENUE UP Motor Carriers, Public Uti . : And ease her worry sorting - ies Commission, Va i ounce. A letter doable dhe ne | With Village Clerks and Court hell When Cecil Rhodes took over| Mpc, up to Sept. 1, 1959. For S Fated wp at double the d&| “ wouse Clerts Tell all your friends, male anq|the position of postmaster nine|Mrull information contact your slency bidpsiie meas nat MEU ang H. and D. and other female “sme years ago from Harold Richard-| local Greyhound As cents are owing, the receiver is| ale, i _ charged eight cents. THs) you wet them wrong and there| TH A¥MBEF of your bos, | S08, We revenue of the Wiliams € g $ ge vrong 2 e Ww a could lead to poor business re- are Sparks “s : 000; today is it $50,000. lations if the matter is handled | ee RUSH HOUR an H No number of the box. At the present time there are| This is derived solely from the carelessly. | es nine people employed at the sale of stamps. Approximately It is desired that when seve-/There’s Senff and Sniff and post office. When twelve| $4,000 worth of stamps are sold ral letters are being posted at Scharff and Scarffe, o'clock comes round, every|each month, money order sales the same time that they be|As well as Knight, Midnight bound together by string or an| elastic band. This saves a Tom, Dick and Harry storms|average $65,000 per month, and Sad Sele, into the building for his mail>|Wnemployment insurance stamps lot| One gives a very rueful laugh, Passenger Train Schedule No. 1 DAILY NORTHBOUND READ DOWN Squamish . Lillooet Clinton . Williams Quesnel ~ Ly. . Ly. Ar. Chetwynd _ Schedule PACIFIC GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY Pacific Daylight Time y. North Vancouver Horseshoe Bay Prince George Fort St. John Effective August 9, 1959 No. 2 DAILY SOUTHBOUND READ UP ee ar DAILY a.m. Ly. a.m. Ar. Reclining Reserved Seats and of course at this hour there| ad another $5,000. are fewer people there for| It is easy to realize that the serving as some go to lunch at! post oifice is no longer a small this time. Lunch hours are| business or an easy one. Like |staggeread by half an hour but post offices throughout the }there is a limit. You can’s ex-|worla, it-is-doing a-very useful | of time when it comes to|No number of the box. Your Dealer. will. quote you local Electrical pect people to wait until 2:30) job jfor the community. Per- a price jor three o'clock for their meal. return is to endeavour to ad- an qt Mail clerks do not have time to haps the least we can do in LIVE BETTER sit around as they are busy from | dress our mail correctly. ELECTRICALLY Chetwynd __ Dawson Creek _. Lounge Seats — View Windows Available with Steward Service and Complimentary Meals FOR RESERVATIONS AND TICKETS PHONE P.G.E. RAILWAY AGENT, WILLIAMS LAKE 28 PACIFIC GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY. USE TRIBUNE CLASSIFIEDS wicket. Here clerk Miss Maureen Stewart B.C.’S REFRESHING NEW DISCOVERY, A GREAT LAGER BEER BY...... O'KEEFE BREWING COMPANY B.C. 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