Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1907 — POSTOFFICE IS SWAMPED. [ARTICLE]

POSTOFFICE IS SWAMPED.

Xew Rule Concerning Orders for SniMilios Causes Trouble. One of the reforms inaugurated in the -division of supplies of the Postoffice Department by Assistant Postmaster General De Oraw is the requirement that postmasters throughout the country shall order supplies for their offices in sufficient quantities to serve for one year. Upward of 37,000 requisitions have been received from postmasters. This large influx of orders has caused the division to fall considerably in arrears in the matter of filing requisitions, 13,500 being unfilled now’. The receipts of requisitions. however, which a week or so ago ran up to more than 1.000 daily, are now only between 500 and 600 a day and the division is filling between 1,000 and 1,100 a day. Arrangements are being made to increase the number filled each day. so that w ithin two weeks it is expected all requisitions on hand will be filled. After that all orders will be filled promptly, as under the new arrangement the number of requisitions received will continue to decrease. The department still has considerable difficulty iu securing sufficient twine, which is needed in large quantities by postoffiees nnd the railway , mail service, but the twine contractors report that they are making every effort to forward adequate shipments during the coming week