Mail Delivery in Lowell
U.S. Postal Dept. Approves City Mail Delivery Here
Postmaster Fred V. Hayden was the recipient of a letter from N.R. Abrams, assistant Postmaster General, Saturday, which revealed the approval of establishing city delivery service in Lowell.In the near future, carrier satchels and other equipment sufficient to place the service in operation will be received from the Bureau of Facilities.
However, delivery service can not be inaugurated until the houses are numbered and carriers selected. The numbering system will be supervised by town officials.
Delivery should be in force by July 1st.
Under the presidency of Loyal "Ty" Alyea, the Commercial Club of Lowell headed its 1953 agenda of projects with obtaining mail delivery service for Lowell. "Ty" worked indefatigably laying the ground work which brought Mr. Clark from Cincinnati last month for an investigation of postal service conditions.
Upon learning that the local postoffice has on its list of patrons approximately 800 families who pick their mail up at the postoffice, and box facilities, for few more than 400, Mr. Clark realized the tremendous amount of sorting done each day servicing general delivery patrons, for whom boxes are not available.
As a member of the Commercial Club, the Tribune takes pride in the accomplishment of this project which marks another step in Lowell's forward progress.
A copy of the following newspaper article, hand-dated January 29, 1954, was found in a scrapbook owned by Town Historian Richard Schmal:
Lowell Gets Grant For Home Delivery Of Mail Next July
With approval from the Postmaster General's office for home delivery of mail in Lowell, received Saturday by Postmaster F.V. Hayden, residents may look forward to inauguration of the service July 1 if certain qualifications are satisfactorily met with. These requirements include the numbering of each business house and dwelling in the town limits and the provision and putting up of a mail box at each place, the postmaster said.Interest in home delivery, initiated by such civic organizations as the Lowell Commercial club, Junior Chamber of Commerce and Lowell Junior Woman's club, stirred into action with the arrival of an inspector in December to make the survey requested by Hayden, who undertook his work as postmaster October 1.
The fostering clubs will work with the town board toward fulfillment of basic requirements, Hayden said.
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