Medford
Tribune
SECTION B
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1961
PAGES 1 to 8
Mail Delivery in Europe
Is Speedy and Efficient
London-flIPtt-A letter mailed
, to London, England, Irom
1 New Orleans, La., might well
beat one mailed from New
Orleans at the same time to!
Boston, Mass. " '
The 700,000 Americans ex
pected to travel abroad this
year will doubtless be aston
ished at the speed they. get
their letters from home.
On the whole, Europe's
speedy and efficient mails
catch most Americans by sur
prise and win their admira
tion, j
A United Press Internation
al survey of mail services
from correspondents in 15 Eu
ropean capitals netted eye
opening results on postal effi
ciency in Britain and on the
continent. ! : ...
In 12 of the 15, if you mail
a letter to another part of
the city before noon, it will
be delivered that same after
noon. The fastest services are in
England, Switzerland and
Denmark. .
In the center of London,
there are four mail deliveries
to homes and business offices
every week day. They come
at 7. and 11 a.m., and at 1 and
3 p.m. -;
It is hot unusual to mail
a letter in London at 11 a.m.,
and have it in the receiver's
hands by 1 p.m.-or 3 p.m., at
the latest.
Persons living outside the
' center,, but still in London,
get three deliveries a day.
In Switzerland, a letter sent
from Zurich at 8 a.m. to Basel
probably rwill be delivered
that same afternoon.
Principal Swiss cities get
three deliveries a day, and
the speed is due . partly to
Switzerland's small size.
Copenhagen has three de
liveries a day, and if you
stumble into best conditions,
an in-Copenhagen letter will
get to its destination within
an hour. ;
Throughout Europe, smaller
cities have a somewhat cur
tailed service but usually re
ceive the number of deliveries
the bigger cities receive, less
one. , . i
The poorest European mail
service seems to be in Austria.
There are two daily deliveries
in Vienna, but a letter mailed
from one part of the city to
another will sometimes take
two or three days. ,
The Viennese also complain
about postal counter services.
Due to rigid weighing prac
tices, - every air mail letter
has to be posted separately at
an office, and this procedure
may take three minutes for
each letter.
Almost every European na
tion sends regular mail by the
fastest possible means. Usual
ly, if a regular letter can get
to its destination faster by air
than by land or sea, it is flown
at no extra charge. '
Most of Europe's postal serv
ices aim at same-day delivery
within big cities, and for next
day delivery between cities.
If they must fly a letter to
attain the goal, it's done.
Generally,- postal services
cost more than in the U.S.,
Moon Round Trip
May Cost $600
New York - (Science Serv
ice) Future vacationers
could be taking a round trip
to the moon for the bargain
price of $600. .
This low price, which does
not include tips, could be
come a reality if a single stage
nuclear rocket was used for
the trip, M. W. Hunter of
Douglas Aircraft Company,
Inc., reported. The $600 fig
ure does include the cost of
pilot, stewardesses, food and
other direct operating factors.
The success of the venture
hinges on making the space
craft reusable, as convention
al aircraft now are. Multi
stage rockets would skyrock
et the costs to an impractical
figure, Hunter state.
About 200 tons of payload
a year would be needed to
keep a 20-man expedition con
tinuously supplied on the
moon, Hunter reported here
in the journal of the Society
of Automotive Engineers.
The $600 price tag is actual
ly much less than the present
average cost for a vacation
trip to Europe. ' .'.'
Portland - (UPB - The State
Sanitary Authority has set
June 28 as a date for a cita
tion hearing to show cause
why an order should not be
adopted to abate alleged air
pollution caused by burning
at a refuse disposal site south
eastof Salem;. ' '
in relation to the general cost
of living. For example, an
air mail letter from the U.S.
to England costs 15 cents, but
from England to America it's
17V4 cents.
A letter ' within Britain's
boundaries costs thruppence
(3 cents), which is slightly
higher, comparing living costs,
than in the U.S. The same
picture is true throughout
Europe. : .'
Soma Profit -
Some of the mail services
profit handsomely. Holland's
postal department had 70 mil
lion guilders ($20 million) to
spare last year, Denmark's
had 50 million kroner ($7 mil
lion) extra, and England's had
and excess of 6,400,000 pounds
($17,920,000) in the 1959-60
fiscal year. .
Practically all the countries'
postal departments run spe
cial banking services. Most
pay interest that compares fa
vorably with bank interest.
Most charge a small amount
for the service, but a few
pay interest while charging
nothing. ,
Every European country has
raised its postal rates in the
last six years excepting Switz
erland, where the last raise
was in 1924. "
France and England claim
special postal services fea
tures, s
In Paris, some letters (for
a 30-cent fee) travel through
pneumatic tubes that run be
tween various post offices.
With this system, departure
to destination may take but
two hours. , :
London possesses the
world s only underground mail
train. The "post office tube
railway" is a o'fc-mile net
work connecting eight major
postal stations and is used
exclusively for the mails. The
tunnels, which are 70 feet be
low ground level on average,
carry 45,000 mail bags every
day. ' ' .
Gambling-happy Britain
also has a post office "lottery."
For one pound ($2.80) you buy
a "premium, bond." No Inter
est is paid, but each month
the , accumulated Interest is
pooled and winners drawn.
You either have your one
pound premium bond or a
prize of from 25 pounds ($70)
to 5,000 pounds ($14,000).
Britons, of all Europeans,
like their postal system. It
even gives away money.
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