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Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
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Postmaster General Burleson recommends discontinuing motor truck routes due to high costs and low revenue, based on investigation; Congress may override. Routes in various areas, including Chattanooga and Knoxville, TN, deemed nonproductive. (Jan. 22, Washington)
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (Spl.)—Motor truck routes now operated by the postoffice department in various parts of the country will be discontinued with the close of the fiscal year unless congress chooses to override a recommendation to that effect made by Postmaster General Burleson. This report, now in the hands of a senate committee on postoffices and postroads, is based upon an investigation conducted during the last few months by Robert H. Barclay, postal inspector at Cincinnati, and a corps of assistants.
The inquiry developed that instead of producing revenue these routes have been operated at a heavy expense and have not tended to increase the shipment of country produce to city consumers, the chief increase in this regard being confined to eggs and mushrooms. Fully 82 per cent of the revenue has been produced through the carriage of first class mail which could be handled cheaper and more expeditiously by train and the regular rural routes. Tennessee routes among those classed as nonproductive were those operated out of Chattanooga and Knoxville.
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Washington
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Jan. 22
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motor truck routes to be discontinued with the close of the fiscal year unless congress overrides the recommendation; routes operated at heavy expense and nonproductive, especially those out of chattanooga and knoxville, tennessee
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Motor truck routes operated by the postoffice department will be discontinued unless congress overrides a recommendation by Postmaster General Burleson, based on an investigation by postal inspector Robert H. Barclay showing the routes produce no revenue, operate at heavy expense, and do not increase shipment of country produce except eggs and mushrooms; 82 per cent of revenue from first class mail better handled by train and rural routes