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Tuesday, June 25, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Kansas Staff Photo by DERRIE GUMB
Edward Boehle Checks the Mail
Letters Separated by Hand; New Process Planned
By SHARON WALSH
Kansas Staff Reporter
Sorting of Mail Complicated Task
Editor's Note: This is part two of a two-part series on the Lawrence Postal Service.
After the truck has been unloaded, bags of nail are dumped and placed into trays or buckets.
The U.S. Post Office at 645 Vernon is a large concrete and glass structure with an appearance of modern orderliness that matches with the synchronized bustle inside.
Mail is then separated by hand into special rate classes, such as first class, second class, third class, etc.
POSTMASTER JOHN B. HARRIS explained Friday that all mail is separated by hand because Lawrence simply does not have the tremendous volume of mail that would justify spending millions of dollars on mail-sorting equipment.
Harris said yesterday that Lawrence would soon begin sending all outgoing mail to Kansas City, Mo., to be processed. Arrangements will be made for any individuals or firms who want their mail to have a Lawrence postmark.
After rate classes have been separated, the mail is culled of odd-sized envelopes, which will be postmarked by hand. All others are hand-positioned on the circulation system, which sends letters to the postmark machine.
However, there is a plan to concentrate all outgoing mail into one office that has this equipment. This plan is designed to save costs and increase the costs in the Lawrence dispatch department.
Large canvas sacks, cards, trays and baskets are heaped with envelopes and packages of every size. Trucks arrive with even more mail to be dumped and sorted.
Postmarked letters are pigeon-hole according to their zip codes and re-bundled
Schafer said the domestic tension in the plays wasn't there merely to heighten dramatic effect but was a result of changing roles and expectations in a changing world.
The general impression received from William Fingle plays is one of domestic discord and tension. Donna E. Schafer, director in American studies, last night.
The four plays were "Come Back, Little Sleuca," "Piazza," "Bus Stop" and "The Town."
In her speech, "The People of Inge's World: Family Life in Mid-America, 1920-1969," Schafer told about 50 persons in Murphy Hall how the impression of family life she received from four plays by William Clark related to sociological data of the period.
Family Tensions Typify Inge Plays
By KATHY PICKETT
Kansan Staff Reporter
She said sources of the tension were changing male and female relationships, a preoccupation with conjugal relationships, and a character of the middle class nuclear family.
The tension resulting from male-female relationships can be seen in all four plays, by *Fiddler on the Roof*.
"Many of the men, while certainly handsome and virile, seem to have some difficulty coping with the expectations of the male role," she said.
Rubin Flood, in "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs," has trouble with the role of breadwinner and with the "expressive" character of his children, especially his son, she said.
Similarly, in "Picnic" Hal has trouble coping in polite middle-class society. He tries to understand that people are not
HARRIER SAID this was true because any mail going more than 500 miles normally goes by mail air mail. The extra three cents paid for the air mail stamp is just the assurance that it has first priority. First class mail is loaded on the plane only if there is room after air mail has been loaded.
The Lawrence Post Office uses a system that is no longer used by many offices. When a carrier comes into the office in the morning, his mail has already been sorted to the correct delivery person who have memorized the city shelter and then further sort it, ties it, and delivers it.
Mail that comes in for delivery in Lawrence comes in late at night and is worked up for the carriers by eight the following morning.
In many cases a first class letter and an
an mail letter having the same destination
Another facet of the male-female tension is seen by the interaction between men and women.
Schater said the women in the plays were usually engaged in a desperate attempt to reach the audience.
Nitcher said that Jones "has increasingly assumed the broad role of administering business matters, and will take up specific responsibility for coordinating the budget."
"I don't think the picture is as clear-cut as the foregoing description of desperate, long-suffering women and flawed, fly-by-night men might at first suggest," she said.
"At times the interaction between men and women seems lacerating, almost brutal," she said. "In fact, I found in Ings' plays some of the best fight scenes that I recall since having read 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'
The typical schedule of a carrier might be; in at a 8:44, to sort the mail, out on the bus by a 8:44, then back in the office at 2 10:44, and forth again. The same, such as second- and third-class mail.
for primary distribution in orange, green or grey sacks, depending on their destinations. The sacks are then loaded into trucks or airplanes for delivery to other cities.
difficulty reconciling his image of manliness with the expression of emotion.
But there really is a remarkable incidence of desertion in the plays, Schafer said, although that fact is probably a slight distortion of reality.
Scheetz will assume her duties July 8. The position was previously held by Diane Turner.
Martin Jones, assistant to the vice chancellor for business affairs and budget officer, has been named associate vice chancellor for business affairs, according to Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs.
The announcement was made by William M. Bailour, vice chancellor for student affairs, and Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union.
Jones, Greeson Promoted In Business Affairs Office
But most of this interaction was based on need, Schafer said.
Jones will continue to work in the same office with the same general respon-
sibility he earlier said, but will now make decisions on University budget affairs when Nitcher is absent.
Marian J. Scheetz was named Friday as director of the Kansas Union food service.
Jones has been budget officer for eight
years and formerly assistant dean of the
School of Business.
Scheetz was formerly the assistant director of food service at the University of Delaware. She has a degree in dietetics from Drexel University in Philadelphia..
Tom Greeson has been named assistant vice chancellor for business affairs. He has worked as an assistant to Nitcher for four years.
Food Service Gets New Head
Greese will coordinate data processing and payroll operations, Nitcher said.
The bulk of daily mail varies, according to the time of day, from 90,000 to 250,000 pieces a day, Harris says. All mail comes through the main post office downtown. However, mail for the Jayhawk Station and the University of Kansas is held out. Each of those stations sorts and delivers its own mail.
Schafar said another source of domestic tension was a preoccupation with conjugal
never appointment involved the
evenest in a new position. Both
appointments with him are
"For all the frustrated expectations of the wives and mothers in these plays, the women seem to be almost consumed by their love for daughter's marital fortunes," she said.
"These very tensions tend to affirm the importance of the expressive roles in King's play."
But because of the high rate of martial failure in Inge's plays, Schafer said, the women often turn to their children for compensation.
"THE CLASSIFIED STATION at KU is rather unique," Harris said. "Very few universities in the country have anything like it. We just take the mail up there in the university building. The University handle it. It actually brings them much as $50,000 a year on today's market."
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"A university town is unique because people are so mobile," Harris said. "Students sometimes move several times in a single semester, and since these students are concentrated in certain areas, some routes are really loaded down."
MAIL FOR WATSON LIBRARY,
The University Daily Kansan, Allen Field House, Watson Memorial Hospital and all
university residence halls is delivered directly to them from the main Post Office.
Student personnel in the residence halls deliver mail to individual mailboxes and take care of any mail that must be returned.
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All other University mail is delivered to the University Post Office, 4 Strong Hall,
where it is sorted and delivered to University offices and departments.
The University has its own zip code, 60645 which simplifies the mail-sorting process. The zip code for Lawrence is 60644.
There is also an intra-campus mail service that delivers messages, pay checks and any other materials that do not require postage.
Revision of Final Schedule Sunday Exams Considered
The proposed changes would occur if the Senate Executive Committee decided to send the changes to the University Council and Senate for approval.
Last, but certainly not least, are the unique problems caused by the University campus.
Tests during the last week of classes may be abolished and Sunday final examinations may be added to the University calendar, Earl Nehring, former chairman of the Senate Committee and chairman of the political science department, said yesterday.
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"It is an almost unbelievable problem at times," Harris said. "We have so much mail to be forwarded. A forwarding order, once it is issued, will stay active for one week. We have over 32,000 forwarding orders now. Just imagine that in a town this size."
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occurs in the summer. Along with for-
warding orders, the post office also gets
orders to hold mail.
The proposal to abolish tests during the last week of classes came about because some students had objected to taking tests the week before final examinations. Some faculty members give finals during the last week and instead of at the scheduled time. A flat bar would be used during the last week of classes would help solve the complaints, Nehring said.
This may all sound simple enough, but Lawrence is not without its own special postal problems. There are many more large mailers in Lawrence than in other cities where postage rates such as Kresse Distributors, Maupitt Travel Service and Kansas Color Press add
When students don't leave a forwarding address, first class mail is returned to the sender. If there is no return address, the mail is destroyed.
Magazines, which are second-class mail, cannot be forbeared. In some cases the post sends and sends the forwarding address to the邮局. The publisher pays a fee for this service.
to the mail load. Kansas Color Press alone mails over 18 million magazines each month.
If there were no conflicts with any student and the final was within the nine days of final examinations, the time of the final would not be taken. The Calendar Committee's approval, he said.
The recommendation for a day between classes and final examinations was also made because of some student complaints. To make up time for this day, Sunday afternoon evening examinations would be the only feasible solution, Nehring said.
The two-and-one-half day enrollment schedule will be in effect again this fall, 2018.
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Nebring said that the rule to ask the Cardinal Committee to approve a change in the time allocation schedule was a waste of time and that a recommendation to drop this rule was made.
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