乡村投递具有路线长、路况差、面广点分散等特点。随着农村商品经济的发展和农民文化水平的提高,邮件、报刊发行量不断增长,乡邮日益成为邮政工作中最艰苦繁杂的工种。“晴天一身灰,雨天一身泥”,招工越来越困难。在岗的乡邮员,大部分是七十年代前参加工作的。年龄老化,体质下降,力不从心,已逐渐不适应乡村投递工作。年龄轻的又不安心投递工作。乡邮员面临青黄不接的局面。在边远和经济不发达的地区,由于业务量少而生产成本高,使用自编乡邮员,很难使社会效益和经济效益兼顾。1984年,我局招收了一批委办乡 Rural delivery has a long route, poor road conditions, a wide range of scattered features. With the development of rural commodity economy and the improvement of farmers’ cultural level, the circulation of mail and newspapers has been on the rise. Township Post is increasingly becoming the most difficult and complicated type of postal service. “A sunny day, gray muddy rain,” recruiting more and more difficult. Most of the postal workers in the post are workers who took part in the work before the seventies. Age aging, physical decline, powerless, has gradually become unsuited to the rural delivery work. Young and not at ease delivery job. Township mail staff face the situation of the yellow. In the remote and economically underdeveloped areas, due to the lack of business and the high production costs, it is very difficult to balance the social and economic benefits with the self-made countrymen’s postal staff. In 1984, our bureau recruited a number of commissioned townships