POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600200076-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2011
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: May 28, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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mat vttiZeae, the rest by institutions and entesTrises.
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43.8 percent of which had been deposited in mailboxes before 1200. Nearly
80 percent of the letters counted during these 3 days were sent by individ-
survey of the volume of mail was mode. It was estimated that more than
146,000 local letters were dispatched in ffiscow dewing a 3-d
y period
_s, After studying thin flow, the following fixed schedule for the trane-
,,,,, _ Lettaara
1.
Emptying letter boxes
1200
1300
2.
Processing an city departments
1300
1315.
3.
Transporting from city departments
to intcrra9on,.sorting terminals
1315
1415
4.
Processing in postal terminal
1415
1500
5.
Transporting to post office
1500
1545
G.
Exchange of begs at post office
1545
1600
7.
Transporting from post office to
imterinyan sorting tealuals
1600
1645
8.
Processing in sorting terminal .
1645
1800
9.
Transporting from teswwinale to
10.
impartments
In city departments
1800
1900
according to delivery sane.
1900
1913,
11.
Delivery to addressees
1915
2W,
throughout the entire city has been met for the fixed time between 1209
am M.
1 hr
15 min
1 hr
45 min
45 min
15 min
45 min
1 hr,
15 min
1 hr
In order that processing and transmittal of local letters be effected
within a fixed time limit, the collection of letters from all letter boxes
,
in other terminals of the city, is delivered in special begs to the post
otfiee evoahsnge canter. In order to make this effective, there moat be
ssoeptional F tw-lity by the transportation works". The slightest
supervised tide limit.
It a a well-known fact that beeow has a decentralised system of
handling sail. Zn order to speed tip, the exchange of mail between the
terminals, a special intearayen vehicular transport system? which runs
beteeen the rayon terminal and the post office, operates at 1545. The
local correspondence from each internyon tersiaal
which has been sorted
oorreepondamos are carried out is designated working areas within a closely
ers
city postal departments whets it is separated from cut-of-town mail, post-
assfrod, and packed in special bags for forwarding to the terminal. A
rigid time limit of 15 min toe has been set for processing loc.? lett
tardiness on the part of one vehicle would be able to delay tkw forwarding
of moil to other terminals. The time limit of 15 minutes set for this
esabwnge is aloaely observed.
Dispatch m have been utilised to make this exchange process enooese uml.
At eooaotly 1500 the workers at the interrayon mail terminals inform their
omen rliepatckamr of the era er of bags to be forwarded to each mail terminal
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in the city. The rayon diapatchera hnnaey this iniorsation to the post-
office dispatcher, on duty, and the la tar expedites the exchange of mail,
Invoices in each Interraw sorting terminal of Moscow are made up
beforehand in the eaonhatige center. The invoice blanks are pruned, and the
tames of all sorting teminals are indicated on them. This speeds up the
weak of those engaged In handling the mail, since they merely have to check
the bag nabs against the corresponding now of the termissl.
Then meaewee undertaken by the Moscow Poat Otfics asud the rayon
offices have already shown positive resalts in the first month. Formerly,
a considerable amount of local correspondence which had been deposited in
letter boxes before 1200 use delivered no sooner than the following day.
After this reorganization, 97 percent of the letters deposited in mailboxes
before 1200 tars delivered an the same day to adabneseeem.
Various Improve, em I , in the time necessary for collecting letters from
aailbozee have been Introduced. Collection of letters from all mailboxes
located in the territory served by the intesrrayon sorting terminals is does
between 1900 and 1400, and from those mailboxes located In the oeantral pert
of the city between 1400 and M. This has further speeded up the delivvrq
of local letters. The large amount of local correspondence deposited In
mailboxes in the central part of the city before,1300 or 1500 is at present
also delivered on the am day.
Li ost all Moscow oommicationo departments, with the emceptiom of
those situated an the outskirts, have instituted four daily deliveries,
with a 3-day working schedule for postmen. Starting tins or postman has
been set at 0710. Termisution of cork, wiib a 3-hotr boreek, period, is set
at 2030. Thus, VV. firA 'emil delivery is made at 0730, the second at
1100, the third at 1530, and the fourth at 1915.
All laosI oorrespoadeooe which was deposited in Moscow mailboxes
before 1200 or 1500, out-of-teen correspondeme which was received in the
city ommudeations depeabeats before 1800 or 1900, and the newspaper
Veoberamava Moskva,, are delivered on the last round.
With a change to a 3-day iorkimg sohedulr., the labor'cc ditions of
postmen have bow cosaideerably ameliorated. Each postman now has a day
off avaay 2 days.
Competing with Leningrad oommmtcation markers, Moscow postal uoe'kws
have obligated themaelvem to Impa+ova the delivery of correspondence and
printed matter to the population of boom. The workers of Moscow petal
enterpclses are fulfilling these 1 ].igations honorably.
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