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PUBLIC LAW 68-JUNE 10, 1955

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employees, annual receipts of $48,000,000, four hundred Governmentowned vehicle units, fifty classified stations and branches, and one thousand four hundred carrier routes within its jurisdiction. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.—

(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling of the mails and to provide courteous and efficient postal service to patrons. (B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships with the public in the area. (C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the limits prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; determines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately trained for their respective positions. (D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal System and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee relations with representatives of employee organizations and individual employees. (E) Reviews estimates of hianpower needs and operating allowances, submits requests and recommendations as required, and determines that operations are efficiently carried out and expenditures authorized in accordance with approved estimates. (F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the operation and maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the post office, and for the expenditure of funds in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. (G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment submitted by operating officials of the post office for submission to the Supply Center or the Department. ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to a regional director or other designated superior. (48) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, LARGEST FIRST-CLASS OFFICE LEVEL 19. BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of one of the

largest first-class offices, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, buildings, personnel, and related services in the main post office, stations and branches. This office has approximately twenty thousand employees, annual receipts of $140,000,000, one thousand one hundred Government-owned vehicle units, sixty-six classified stations and branches, and three thousand two hundred carrier routes within its jurisdiction. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.—

(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handfing of the mails and to provide courteous and efficient postal service to patrons. (B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships with the public in the area. (C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the limits prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; determines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately trained in their respective positions. (D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal System and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee relations with representatives of employee organizations and individual employees. (E) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allowances, submits requests and recommendations as required, and determines that operations are efficiently carried out and expenditures authorized in accordance with approved estimates.

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