The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-06-19

The custom of keeping the stamp
window closed during the frequent dis
tribulions of the mails Is beginning TO
be burden ON our business men. NJ
merOus OF them have requested US 10
suggest To the postmaster To keep this
window open at these times. II this IS
doue the business public will regard II
az great favor. Emporia is now
large enough 10 dem md .his.-Republi-
can.
The business men also demand q
speedy distribution of the mails. To
keep the stAmp-wIndow open during the
frequent distributions would take a
clerk of of that work and hence delay il.
The frequent cl, sings of the stamp-wir-
dow has long been felt to be an una
voidAble burden, but the ques-
ton was how To- prevent It.
Emporia may be large enough to de-
mand that the frequent closing ct the
stamp window shall not occur, but the
trouble Is the department does not agree
with the Republican in this respect II
Is the universal practice, We believe, TO
close all the windows when an important
mail Is - be distributed, except at first
class offices, and at these q regular stamp
clerk is FUR hbed, who does nothing else
but sell stamps. The necessity of clos
Ing the windows has long been felt to be
an disagreeable one at the EmpOria
Office, but 1t could not be helped.
II the department would do its plain
duty and furnish the clerks necessary
10 conduct the business of the office as
the postmaster would like IT, conduct it,
all the closing would he obviated, but
this 1t steadily, aud In spirit or mean
ness that Is unaccountable, refuses TO do.
1t took out of the Emporia Office last
year $le 900 of net profit, and the busI-
ness Is constantly increasing, and yet il
Tequires a continual fight to keep the de-
parIment from falling back to the basis of
avillage in Its allowances and IN its treat
ment of this Office. 1t has always betn
considered best, in order {, give the
public their mail matt r at the eaIli-
est moment, e. stop all other work
aud put all the force Il distributing the
mails when they arrive, three OF which,
each day. are usually heavy, and re-
quire good deal of time tor their prop
CT distribution. We presume the post
master would have no objection to
adopting the Republicans suggestion il
the public is willing to wait longer for
thtir mails, but would II mt he as we'll
for the business men, the class the Re
publican PROCESSES To speak for, to mak g
IL rule to buy their stamps at some
other time than during tue distribution
of the mails. They know when the diff.
fereBt mails arrive, and haYe all The day
except about ten minutes after the arri
val of the western mail at noon
whCn part of the force must go to din
ner, . half hour after the arrival of The
southern mail at 3 80 p m. and 20 to q
minutes after the arrival OF the eastern
mail at p. N in which Ia supply them
selves with stamps. If they could ar
range To get stImps during the day, ex
cept at the times mentioned, the diff
Guilty Of which they may have com
planned would be easily obvialed, ant
without much effbrt ON their Part.
No one outside has a proper concep
tion of the amount of work there is tn d,
10 the Emporia post Office, and whel
the time cpmes a. do il
IL must be dOoe-thst 10. wheI
the Time comes t. distribut,
mail, or To stamp aud tie up mail, or .
get the registered matter ready for tn
mail. IL must be done. and people ar
sometimes unavoIdably detained at tn
stamp and other windows. We believ
the EmPOriA Office is run rs well as an
Office In the state OF its slze, and tha
there Is constant effort 10 aecommo
date the public 10 every possible way
The\gDvsrnmrnI Is Ia blame and not th
post master if people are som, times keE
waiting. We know that Mr. Aurph
will glaiiy receive any Suggestions th
patrons nf the ONCE may make and thu
he will dn whatever lies in his power I
remedy any real cause of complaint.
The First National hank IL I'm