Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1910 — GROWING POSTOFFICE DEFICIT. [ARTICLE]

GROWING POSTOFFICE DEFICIT.

lam* Hakit* of Uaera of Whlcß Helped to Make It. Apropos of deficit in the Postoffice Department last year—* which was H. 000,000 worse than the one of two years ago—the Silent Part* ner remarks that, after all. It Is .the people’s own department, and it seems tp be their delight, to abuse its priv lieges. “They may persist,” says the article referred to, "in'using stationary ot gray, yellow, green, red, \blue and every other color that makes addresses almost impossible to read at night, when most mail is handled. “It is the people’s department, so they have a right to deposit every ■year 11,000,000 pieces of mall to go to the dead letter office after carriers, clerks and experts have spent hours, trying to decipher each address or hunting an address that did not exist “Since the postoffice belongs to the people they have a right as business meh to save up all their hundreds, of Inters to mall at the close of the day v that an extra night force is needed iq. every big postoffice, and, Bo that nine-tenths' of the mall may be sorted. and handled at the‘very time whsn it is twice as hard to work it. “As business men the people have a right to tie packages so they will come unwrapped, to send all sorts of mall with insufficient postage, to send huge cards that will not fit the carrier’s bag or the pigeonholes in the mail cars, or squeeze into the sacks. „ "The people have a right to demand that maU be carded on fast trains from which the sacks must be kicked at high speed, but it is not Incumbent upon the people to use heavy covers for catalogues or booklets so that they will stand the jar. “But if the people have all these rights and take advantage of them the people must not kick if the department is costly or if some who belleve in individualism think that the people’s government makes about the poorest showing as the administrator Of a big business that can be made.”—-New York Sun. . _■ - ■