Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1911 — All Mall to Be Counted and Delays win Be Unavoidable. [ARTICLE]

All Mall to Be Counted and Delays win Be Unavoidable.

Employees of the Rensselaer" postoffice including" the carriers on the rural routes are due for a strenuous workout for thirty-one days beginning Monday, May Ist Instructions frojn the postal department are to the wffeet that every piece of mail that passes through the Rensselaer postoffloe. during the thirty-one days in May must be counted and in addition to this the rural carriers will be required to weigh-all mail handled by them. The clerks in the office will be expected to count every piece of mail and give the time consumed in handling. This appplies to both the incoming and outgoing mall. The mail is divided into classes and some of these classes are subdivided. Blanks have been supplied on which to make daily reports. This extra work means that the handling of mall will be much retarded during the month of May and Postmaster Murray will ask that the public be as patient as possible during the period the work Is going oh. You may depend upon It that they are no more pleased over the matter than you will be.