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| Folder title: | "CENTEL Information System Will Simplify Mail Forwarding" Washington Business (Washington Post) July 13, 1987 |
| Date: | 07/13/1987 |
| Description: | New contact for a mail forwarding system. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 05-06-13 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Automation |
| Original source: | Washington Post |
| Folder title: | A New Perforation Machine |
| Description: | Announcement of a new perforation machine. Photograph of the machine. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Product Announcements ; Photographs |
| Folder number: | 01-01-06 |
| Subject(s): | Automation ; Postal Service - Equipment and Supplies |
| Original source: | Miller Engineering Company |
| Folder title: | Automatic P.O.'s |
| Date: | 02/01/1965 |
| Description: | Information about self-service postal units and automatic sorting equipment. Copy of the Bureau Specialist of February, 1965. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Fact Sheets ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 06-04-14 |
| Subject(s): | Post Office Stations and Branches ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Automation |
| Folder title: | Detroit Showing |
| Date: | 09/29/1959 |
| Description: | Material relating to the Parade of Postal Progress Exhibit in Detroit. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 02-06-02 |
| Subject(s): | Exhibitions |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Finance - Atlanta - IBM - 1963 |
| Date: | 07/18/1963 |
| Description: | Material on the data processing (IBM 1401) unveiling ceremony in the Atlanta Post Office Department. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles ; Photographs ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 01-07-18 |
| Subject(s): | Automation ; Post Office - Stations and Branches ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Folder title: | Finance Minneapolis Project. 3.1.12 |
| Date: | 11/21/1962 |
| Description: | Information pertaining to new computers in Atlanta, a prototype postal system operation Minneapolis test., data processing centers, consolidations Seattle to San Francisco, Memphis to St. Louis, Wichita to Dallas, and Chicago to -Minneapolis. New high speed computers in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Publications |
| Folder number: | 01-07-11 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Automation ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Finance 1 Gen. Correspondence 1967 |
| Date: | 08/16/1966 |
| Description: | Correspondence includes the following: Postal Rates, Current Developments, and Revenue. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Reports ; Memorandums ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 02-03-24 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Postal Rates ; Administration |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Grand Rapids |
| Date: | 05/13/1960 |
| Description: | Material concerning the fully mechanized post office in downtown Grand Rapids, MI. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 02-06-01 |
| Subject(s): | Post Office Stations & Branches ; Automation ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Mail Sorting |
| Date: | 08/26/1959 |
| Description: | This file contains a paper / written statement pertaining to a new type of parcel sorter being developed. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 01-07-39 |
| Subject(s): | Automation ; Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Release |
| Folder title: | Mark II Canceling machines - Electric Eye Detection |
| Date: | 07/10/1962 |
| Description: | How the various postage stamps are detected by the Mark II facing-canceling machine with examples. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 05-07-21 |
| Subject(s): | Cancelling Machines |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | News Kit for Press Conference of P.M.G. Lawrence O'Brien on 5/19/66 |
| Date: | 05/19/1966 |
| Description: | Press releases to advertise improvement in letter delivery, zip code accessibility, mechanization and air pollution control. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Photographs |
| Folder number: | 03-03-15 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Automation |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | P. 1. History Public Information Off |
| Description: | This pamphlet issued by the Public Information Department of the Post Office Department contains information on the progress of the Zip Code, the Mechanization Story, and other issues. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Pamphlets |
| Folder number: | 02-02-13 |
| Subject(s): | Public Relations - Customer Relations ; Zip Code ; Automation |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | P.O. DEPT. News Kit - on VIM |
| Date: | 03/29/1966 |
| Description: | VIM means Vertical Improved Mail which is a system for moving mail by electronically controlled conveyors from a lower floor mail room or postal station to occupants in tall office buildings. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 05-05-07 |
| Subject(s): | Mail Receiving and Forwarding Services ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Policy 1961 3.1.27 |
| Date: | 02/14/1961 |
| Description: | Material on policy issues, some of the issues contained in this file include : Mechanization, relationships with the postal union, the President's decree terminating the program of examining mail from abroad, position on pornography, enforcement of anti-obscenity laws. A copy of President Kennedy's Inaugural Address, a summary of General J. Edward Day's first 100 days in office. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 01-07-26 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Automation |
| Folder title: | Project #2 Carry Wilmer |
| Date: | 09/23/1960 |
| Description: | Press releases providing information on the efficiency of the Postal Service. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 02-07-20 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | Post Office department |
| Folder title: | Project Gateway |
| Date: | 08/26/1959 |
| Description: | This file contains a speech announcing of project Gateway and other automation and modernization plans. A List of display items showing the latest development of automation and modernization in the Post Office Department. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Speeches ; Photographs |
| Folder number: | 01-07-27 |
| Subject(s): | Automation ; Speeches ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Folder title: | S.A.C. - Screw Machine |
| Date: | 08/09/1971 |
| Description: | Suggestions for a commemorative stamp honoring the invention of the first automatic screw machine. Booklet "From ARCHIMEDES to AUTOMATION" The History of the Screw Machine. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Brochures |
| Folder number: | 06-02-19 |
| Subject(s): | Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee ; Postage Stamp Designs |
| Original source: | National Screw Machine Products Association |
| Folder title: | Stamp Tagging |
| Date: | 08/22/1966 |
| Description: | Information papers regarding stamp tagging. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Information Papers |
| Folder number: | 02-05-09 |
| Subject(s): | Luminescent postage stamps ; Automation |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Stamp Tagging |
| Date: | 08/03/1966 |
| Description: | Memoranda pertaining to luminescent postage stamps and stamp tagging. Some areas covered on stamp tagging include: field testing, the National supply contract, raising the level of tagged indicia., increase the efficiency and reliability for letters faced and cancelled by Mark II automatic facer-cancellers, separately identify and collect airmail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Minutes |
| Folder number: | 02-02-32 |
| Subject(s): | Luminescent postage stamps ; Automation ; Postage Stamp Printing |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Trans - 10 Executive Planning BD - Airlift Program |
| Date: | 04/22/1966 |
| Description: | To achieve next day delivery of mail, research and development is necessary. The use of computer controlled, dispatch oriented, mail processing systems may accomplish this. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 02-01-29 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Speed Mail ; Automation ; Air mail service |
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