Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-20
New Haven Mail Matter.

New Haven Mail Matter. An Increase of the Carrier COrpS-FwO
 Mail Teams for the Outside Sections
 More Frequent Delivery and Collection
 Throughout the Ctty-To Take Effect
 August 1st
 In an interview with Postmaster Sperry we learned as follows regarding new and important gain to the mail delivery and collecting facilities in New Haven, which will soon go into effect
 'fFor long time we have been trying to get sufficient number of letter carriers to more fully cover both all the city and town and their outlying portions. Last March sent letter to the Postofice department at Washington, making an application for more carriers, in order, as said, to better accom- modate the public. The department sent an agent here who looked over the ground, and upon his approval and recommendation of the plan, three more carriers ,shaVe been granted, two of them to be furnfAhed with horse and carriage, their field covering large extent of the outlying territory of the city and town.
 The carriers teams will be furnished at government expense. I suppose? Yes, the government will allow 5000 per year for the expense of maintaining the two teems-$3OO per team.
 Are the horses purchased :? Yes, they are already bought and the carriages have al- ready arranged for at the Boston Blackboard company's.
 Are they of your design? Yes, they are en- tirely so. They are two-wheeled carriages, painted black with carmine stripping and lined with blue. They have 8 covered top with catch back handily provided to facili- tate getting in and out of the vehicle. At the center of the carriage top is hook for the lines. An extra step is provided on the shafts of the vehicle in addition to the one usually had. patent apron is provided as an additional protection from the rain, and there is box at the back of the carriage for l carrying bundles, etc., and provided with lock and key, the carriers having the key. Will you please describe in detail the new additional arrangements, as the entire public | will be interested
 | To begin with, the extreme outside routes 1 of the city and town will be covered by means of the use of the teams. This outIy- ing territory to be thus covered commences 1 at Oyster Point and extends to West river thence to Hamilton Park to that section now I provided for by the Westville postofice thence inside by the town and city line tc | NewhallVille, thence to the Hamden line I keep on clear around, clear to Miller'e Garden, and crossing the Mill river we come 1 to Cedar Hill and thence strike across the water to the upper end of the East Haven ol Fair Haven East ward. We keep on from thence all along Fair Haven East to the Hem ingway causeway and down to Four Corners | in the Annex. Thence we go on and take 1T all that portion of the Annex just across
 Tomlinson's bridge.
 This is the outer rim, so to speak, of tht city and of the town in part that is to bt covered by the teams.
 The gain in accommodations is by more frequent delivery, and collections of mails ! That ia Px1f fhn o11 l tional Carriers and the teams we can mak,
 four deliveries per day in the mercantile anC
 business centers instead of three as now
 We make 8 further gain of one delivery more in all the thickly settled portions, making three deliveries there instead of two as now and we will make a further gain by better supplying the outer portions. We will makt substantially two deliveries per day in al directions of the city where the necessities call for it.
 Then as to the gain in the collection o lesters3 We will make, continu ads Postmas ter Sperry, an important gain there, inas much as we will, when the new plan goes into effect. make an early morning collection 1 This will arrive at the postofice in time for the first delivery by the carriers in the city when they are city letters and in time for the early morning trains out of the city when they are out of town letters. This i is quite an improvement, as heretofore mai 1 AAdGGSE ucpOSltSO III Gu0 DOA0S over u1gQG 1aC i to wait till the carriers went on the second round of delivery. Under the new plan the carriers will start out at four o'clock a. m OF | the work of collecting the letters and arrive with them at the office in time to take them on their first trip of delivery of city letters and letters for out of town will get to the early morning mail trains. Frequent coIlec- tions will also be made during the day throughout the city. Another gain will be as follows: There will be an evening col lection of mail matter commencing at o'clock in the evening and finishing at 9. This will pertain exclusively to the original nine squares of the city. This will gather in for despatching on the night mail trains all the letters in that important part of the city deposited before o'clock, which otherwise would be delayed in despatchine until the next morning. It will also take many letters deposited later than and be- fore o'clock in the boxes last reached for this collection.
 Another thing included in the new plan which will interest the public is that there will be under the new arrangement Sunday collection of letters, commencing at four in the afternoon. Sunday is day when many letters are written; many letters are de | ferred until Sunday. But this matter I have no control over and do not set up to dis cuss the question on it's theological side. 1 You may say also that that part of the team mail route known as the Annex and the Four Corners and just across Tomlinson's i bridge will have one delivery of mail matter per day and one col lection from the boxes in addition.
 Are the new carriers selected? Yes, the three carriers have been chosen and theil names have been forwarded to the depart ment to-day. They are the relief men and have been selected for promotion. They are John w. Terry, George M. Welch and Frank G. Haynes. The bonds have been furnished The bonds are $1, 900 in each case. The men furnish their respective bonds. | When does the new plan go into effect? Il takes effect August 1st !
 | MT. Sperry continuing said: ''This new plan really gives in addition to what we have had before one, more morning collection, one more evening collection and one more deliv. l cry all over town. It shortens the distance to be covered in the interior routes of de livery and collection and enables us to make more frequent deliveries and collections" You may add" said MT. Sperry, "another fact of some interest, viz, that the drop let ters in the New Haven postoffce alone pay the expense of the carrier system here kz A1