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Show E • R • C ARTER /11 became they wanted to get it out as quick as they could, but we had a lot of first class mail coming in too. I think our parcel post coming in picked up. SG: That's what I was wondering. EC: And first class mail was worth ---?--- move that bunch over onto the second and third class and get it worked. The third cl ass mail, it would be days before we'd get it caught up because over the weekend, you know, it'd just throw us in such a bind. Like I say, we didn't have the space for the boxes. It was quite a problem, but we got out of it. I think service has been pretty good in Moab. There's always a few unhappy people, I imagine, who didn't think we got something out when they thought we should. SG: Did the volume of the post office go down slightly when the uranium boom started its decline, or did your volume stay about the same? EC: Well, we weren't every really affected. We climbed steadily from '52 right on up to our present day. Now, we got just a little less last year, you know, I think maybe from this potash thing, possibly, but we were still in excess of one hundred thousand, which is about what we had been hitting for the last five or six years. We did forty, fifty, sixty, eighty thousand from the last fifties through the early sixties, and then it jumped up 19 |
