75 Years Ago
I learned something new in the September 21, 1950 Colorado Transcript. From 1916 – 1950, Golden residents had mail delivered twice a day.
According to the October 12, 1916 article that announced commencement of free home delivery, “Two deliveries will be made daily in each district, the carriers leaving the postoffice in the morning at 9:55 o’clock and in the afternoon at 3 o’clock.”
The 1950 article began as a complaint. The assistant postmaster was on his way to Washington, so the editorial staff told him, “You tell them back there that we want two deliveries again.”
The patient postmaster explained that the move was necessary to save money and pointed out that mail arrived at the post office three times a day, and by waiting till afternoon, we would get everything that had arrived that day. He also explained that we would actually get better service for parcels. The regular letter carriers would no longer deliver parcel post; instead, a special parcel carrier would deliver parcels as soon as they were received in the post office.
In the end, the editors were convinced that receiving mail once a day would be tolerable.
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