Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1902 — NEW RURAL DELIVERY ROLE. [ARTICLE]

NEW RURAL DELIVERY ROLE.

The First One Day, the Last Next Pay. Senator Mason has had a conference with the Postmaster-General for the purpose of securing the Issuance of an order which will remove what might be termed a discrimination against certain farmers in regard to the delivery of their mail. At present the rural free delivery carriers leave the postoffice by one route and return by another. As a consequence those who live near the end of the route receive their mail late every day. It is proposed to have carriers start One day at the beginning of a route and reverse the order of things the next. This will equalize matters so far as the time of the delivery of the mail is concerned, as those residing at the beginning of the route will get their mail early one day and late the next, and the same consideration will exist with regard to those at the end of the route. Postmaster-General Payne now has the matter under consideration and will, within the next few days, issue an order on the subject.