European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Twenty five signal messenger stops service the . Army in. Europe. Stop 6200 weekend photographs v Frankfurt s signal message Center directs official mail across Europe the soldiers behind the grilled windows of stop6200 Are expediters of the army s official mail. Unlike their counterparts in the Apo they never touch a perfumed love letter nor apply a postage. Stamp. They Are the Liaison  army unit. And another and Between the european offices of the state and army departments Stop 6200 is the Hub of the signal messenger service network and one of Twenty five offices which process and transport Dugom official correspondence. Staffed by sixty two members of company a 7772 signal battalion it is the relay Point for signal message centers scattered throughout the u. S. Zones of Germany and Austria and in u. S. Army installations in the rest of Europe. Most of its traffic is with ir.a-1 originating in the . Zone much of it from Frankfurt but a Small percentage of the five thousand pouches containing sixty thou Sand official letters it handles each week comes from the French British and russian zones. In the message Center  the Neucom head quarters building Stop 6200 clerks re scheme an Sims term which Means to sort All incoming mail ship it out by plane rail or truck in sealed labelled sacks. Each labelled Pouch bears its own number which is duplicated  signed both at Points of departure and arrival to facilitate Check ing and save loss. Guards watch official mail during seven thousand Miles of european travel each week. There Are no Lush run s on the Stop 6200 schedule. Only trip outside Germany is the Liaison run to the american embassy in Paris. There is Little excitement too for the men whose work never takes them beyond the heavily guarded Well secured message Center. But As one Busy pistol carrying mail sorter admitted we kind of feel we re in touch with and sort of evil responsible for the occupation s official business.". Registered letters receive special care pfc John d. Dear issues receipt. Fiffi ism 3iwm Minni mbbb1 scam Mymit Mem. A i in is is i -1 iaaibasiii""1 5"" incoming pouches irom other parts of the u. S zone Are checked and sorted then redistributed behind barred windows clerks sort the local mail. Outgoing letters travel by truck rail or air. Weekend March 27, 19 18