Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1901 — A SUGGESTION. [ARTICLE]

A SUGGESTION.

j A few weeks ago the postmasters of the Tenth congressional district held a meeting at Lafayette, the alleged purpose of which was to exchange views, etc., on bettering of the mail service to patrons. This is a laudable undertaking and we hope will bear good fruit, but we would like to offer a few kindly suggestions for the improvement of service to the patrons of the Rensselaer postoffice which we think will be heartily endorsed by every one of such patrons. Ist. Let the office be kept open until 8 p. m., each night, and the outer door be left open until 9 p m., each night and all day on holidays. 2nd Let the outer door be kept open from 8 a. m., to 4 p. m , on Sundays. If this were done (ami we understand it is in most towns as large as Rensselaer) patrons provided with lock boxes could go in at any time and get their mail. As it is, these patrons, who pay from two to three times as much for their boxes as do the call Ixix patrons, have very little advantage over the latter. There is nothing in the outer room to steal, and it would be very easy to prevent loafing therein. 3rd. Let mail be made up at 8 p. m., each night to go south on the 11:30 train. In this way letters could be mailed in reply to those received by business men on the 6:35 and milk trnin mail, for Indianapolis, Chicago and other points, reaching their destinations early the next morning. As it is now there is no mail out of Rensselaer, between 5:45 p. ni. and 7:00 a. m., and with the out-going mail facilities we have, if taken advantage of. is altogether too long a time between mails. All these impovements in our local mail service could be brought about with very little extra work to the postmaster and his assistants, and the salary of the office here is such that the patrons ought to have all the good tilings possible. Many towns, much larger than Rensselaer, have not our advantage of mail train service, and we believe we should embrace what we have in this line. The Democrat would like to have an expression from the business men of Rensselaer on the suggestions made above. We feel that the sentiment in favor of their adoption must be practically unanimous.