European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1977 the Sta Sand stripes Poge 9 air Force postal workshop mail betterment ideas get sorted by Lucia Guajardo staff writer Rhei main Germany Sis military and airline authorities responsible for getting mail to americans in Europe exchanged ideas on ways to improve mail service during an air Force postal workshop the postal service sea Board world and pan american world air air army and Navy postal authorities comprised the approximately 65membor group that hashed Over the Many problems contributing to mail the workshop was sponsored by the 7025th air postal so an air Force postal spokesman said there Are some Builtin delays you cant do anything but the participants were trying to avoid those you Melvin commander of the army military mail terminal Sammt in new York where All mail from the to Europe and Back said his workers Are changing working schedules so that mail is prepared in time for the most opportune Mckenzie said he also is trying to quicken service by encouraging direct deliveries to High american concentration areas in Europe through mail destined for a particular european City is placed in a Container in the and not opened again until authorities say containerization speeds delivery and improves arrival condition by cutting several handling a member of the uses it is the position of the postal service to push for and they Are working with the airlines on containerization of Ernst Wood of pan american said the airline is working very hard on getting pan am into 20foot containers which he said is an expensive proposition and not one army sergeant addressed an Issue brought out repeatedly As a deterrent to speedy mail delivery i cant go Back without speaking for my fellow mail we need More its a lot easier to do the Job with new either we have no equipment or it is old or Doest work at we have conveyor belts that run which is responsible for provid ing the military postal said the service was aware of the problem and is in the process of obtaining so additional meter Heads on the Navy Side of the j g i Billic postal said that although Sammt in new York knows the status of each ship the Bear truth for the Birds communication is a Universal need whether in the Normal languages of humans or Means of expression used by Bird and Here Are dialogues by Brown bean in and penguins at the Umidon they May concern Bunting or fishing rights or How to Tell the kids about the Birds and the Gus Schuettler and sorts and sends mail other army and air Force postal offices through which the mail passes Are not being informed and must master chief postal clerk Michael Dwyer of naval in the Navy has a personnel prob Lem with Young postal clerks being As signed to work independently with no he said there arc Only Navy postal clerks in grades Al through most of whom Are lower we arc going through a change where All our Young clerks Are being assigned to overseas terminals for 12 to 18 months of training under an e7 or 9 who running a larger terminal at the same we were also Able to get 14 additional slots for is and 9s that were putting in the key Fleet several service improvement decisions were made by the group uses promised to make certain Post offices Are informed of when parcel delivery to Turkey is there have been according to an air Force postal sergeant from of Post offices refusing to mail packages to Turkey when the parcel embargo was it was established As a result of Cus Tomer complaints that Sam newspapers and magazines should be Given ground preferential treatment so patrons receive them it was also pointed out that it would Speed delivery considerably if postal customers subscribed to such periodicals from East coast offices instead of the West another easterner advice Point was tile importance of using just in Stead of when addressing let postal authorities said confuses their they hit the new York City key when sorting the which they said results in the letter going to the City and a delay of possibly several the uses authorities promised to Ini talc a study to improve Security of the registered mail system As a result of com plaints from postal patrons authorities plan to expedite official mail delivery by touching differently and sending it to a different location at amt to eliminate one handling a request to customs is to be made on behalf of the customer that Cus Toms tags on film mailers and voice tapes nit be required the postal services planned to have More postal alerts that will notify workers when mail deterrents such As airline strikes occur so that other avenues can be recreation workshop to stress motivation Germany Isis nearly 100 Community recreation acs and Uso personnel from Germany and Italy Are expected to attend a fou Day Usa eur recreation Center training workshop scheduled to get under Way monday at the bavarian american hotel featuring and motivating morale resources and serv ices As its the workshop will in clude presentations by Eva Schindler professional consultant and Edu Cator in Community development Ronald Confounder of National training laboratories Dorothy chief of the army recreation Center and Dorothy director of and recreation for the 15th attendees will discuss modern trends in effective utilization of human resources and ways of improving the Quality of life on military installations in a spokesman