The Fair-Way Matter (AFRTS)

Well you're listening enjoyment John Lund as Johnny Daller that that plane crash Johnny did you hear yeah? I just turned off my radio Who is this? Oh, I'm sorry Sam Harris Columbia. Oh, yeah sure as your company carried the policies in that airline Yes, but I'm not thinking of that that crash was planned. Oh they're Japanese about it now. Yes sure mr.

Harris you want me to go out there? Yes, no for just a moment What do you say we take time out to talk about star root? Never heard of them? Well, I don't suppose many of us have, but they exist all right.

Now, those of us who live in cities or in other localities where regular letter carriers drop off our mail, probably never wonder how mail is handled in places where almost no one lives. Where there's hardly anything and not much reason for going there.

But there is someone who thought about it and did something about it, our postmaster general. He sought to it that folks who live in these out-of-the-way places received their mail. Of course, the post office doesn't operate regular mail routes to these places because there isn't enough mail to warrant a regular postman.

But the people in isolated spots, such as prospectors in the Nevada mountains or trappers in the Alaska Wilderness or Louisiana values are entitled to their mail. That's why the post office department has set up a system of contracting responsible agencies to deliver mail to out of the way places.

These special mailmen follow what are known as star routes. Deliveries are made usually to mailboxes similar to RFD boxes that stand in the middle of some barren waste or along a rarely traveled river. Starroot carriers use cars, horses, mules, robo, dog sleds, or airplanes, whatever they need to deliver the mail.