The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-30
Post Office Points
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MONlAlr jury 80
One fellow directed letter to "Uri-
cha" and another one "Witchataw"
The points" are being thoroughly
read, and already there is noticeable
diminution in carelessness.
Put your stamps on the upper right
hand corner of your letters. This would
be great accommodation and facilitate
the handling of letters.
The following letters are now held for
stamp: ]. C. Rankin, Qucuemo, Kan
b. +. Hanford, Prairie City, ILL.,; Callie
(somebody), at Corydon. Iowa.
We wish somebody would get up an
envelope as big as the front of the court
house TO accommodate folks who can't
get the direction on the largest sized en-
velopes and leave room for the stamp.
4 postmaster has no right TO complete
partially directed mai! matter or to sup
ply direction for that found IN Office
without direction. If he should make a
practice of doing so, and should make
mistake, he would be apt To get "the
bounce" from the department.
The mistakes to-day are as follows:
One postal card dropped in box without
direction, 10y same party who Eroppcd
one in about last Friday One letter by
leading business house addressed 10
party with state, but no post Office
given. One letter dropped i'll without
stamp.
TUESDAY, July n.
\ drop letter can be sent for one cent,
but if not prepaid they cost two cents.
The western mail is incre ising rapid
ly, especially the number of letters going
TO Colorado.
If you want to make record" take
thirty-six newspapers through the gen
eral delivery.
After you have inquired for your mail,
be sure to ask if that is all The clerk
may hold some of it back for another
time.
There is nothing clerks take such a
delight in as holding back mail that
should have gone by first mail for some
other time.
If you want your letter to go out dur
ing the week, you had better tell the
clerk SO. AS you drop it in the box,
also tell which direction it goes, as he
probably would not find it out.
The mails were heavy yesterday Six
teen or eighteen hundred letters must
have been serted, post-marked, distrib-
ted and forwarded in the eight mails
which left the office yesterday and very
early this morning.
Don't call for postage stamp 10 or
Is minutes before you intend to pay for
it, but have your change ready and then
take IA week to licking il &c you want TO.
Clerks usually have so much time to
wait for You tn turn seventeen pockets
insideout looking for that three cents
If you have fourteen children and
three adopted ones, send them all TO the
postOf1ice twice day, and be sure to tell
them to have the clerk looll~eyery time.
The idea of delivery clerk remembering
that long-having only handled the
package seventy-nine times in the half
day.
Mistakes to-day: \ letter was recciv-
ed addressed to "John Collins, Lions
county, Kansas. North America Hm-
mcdiately)" Now its a good thing the
North America" was put on, and i'm
mediately," or the delivery of the letter
might have been delayed The slight
didn't make any difference. 4 letter
without postage stamp, addressed Nv
b. Hershey, Springfield, OHIO, Yellow
Springs street" A postal card without
address. \ drop letter without stamp
She came in us usual last evening
She has not missed for 365 days (She
never gets any mail, but she had on a
new dress of Peasoup green, piped with
xr..llnur apH Fastened uyft1 fr1lI
with the usual gussct set in the waist
On her jaunty chip hat which set wen
back on her head was a little canary,
with mouth wide open, which indicated
il had been a singer. As the clerk told
her there was nothing, she walked Off
muttering the same words. You don't
half look. It's something strange can't
get any mail out of this office"
WEDNESDAY, July 2S.
Ducks are strictly unavailable, as their
quacking would disturb the slumbers of
the mailing clerks and route agents
Notwithstanding the fact that peaches
'has riz" stamps are still retailing at
three cents each and postal cards twelve
cents per dozen.
Instead of trying 10 pound the glass
out of your box front step to the nearest
delivery window and call for your mail
by name and give the number of your
box
"From your best girl.
YUM-YUM."
Don't understand it, but if ''Yum-yum''
will direct her postal cards they will 60
better.
There is nothing in the regulations
prohibiting sending canary eggs through
the mail, but if they should hatch in
| transit the birds would become the
property o. the department
Some people are always late in getting
their mail info the Office. When the
eastern mail went at 0 O'Clock they were
! behind, when il went at 10 they
were behind, aud they are in the same
fix now. If the mail waited till 3
O'Clock p. m, they would still be behind.
They are constitutionally behind. But
we can stand 1t if they can. The only