Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-15
MORE POSTAL IMPROVEMENTS.


 An Important Gain in Time for
 Letters Sent From New Haven to All the Fifty Sub P0stofHcese in New York City-An Able Address.
 Despite the numerous unmistakable end ! valuable public improvements Hon. N. D. Sperry has added to Now Haven's postal facilities since he resumed sway over our city's postal affairs few months ago, the fertile and active brain of this indefatiga ble and master postmaster and public ser want has devised still another important improvements which will be likewise great ly appreciated. It is like most of the Improvements he has made, original in conception and like them will be success ful in execution. It will prove 8 great alone in the business classes but with the rank and file, 50 to speak, of letter writ CTS. Heretofore all letters sent to New York city have had to go to the main big office in New York and there be distrib-' uted, those for the sub stations in New York being there assorted and separated and then sent to the respective sub sta l tions, a work that took several hours. Hence a letter sent from this city to any portion of New York lying within the linn | it's, or boundaries of the sub postofices was as long in getting to it's destination as letters sent from here for Philadelphia, or Albany or even longer. Mir. Sperry has, with his usual watchfulness for the best public service, devised method to obviate this delay. Hereafter all mail | the sub postofices in New York city will be assorted and distributed at the New Haven postofice and placed in separate | pouches, one for each of the sub stations in question, all ready for their delivery by l the postal clerks, on the arrival of the mail trains at New York for immedi- | ate transfer to the respective stations Then the delivery of mail matter for these ! points will be expedited from two to three hours, and even four hours in some cases
 This is, as said, another important gain in our mail facilities. There are no less than | fifty sub-stations or sub-postofices in New York city outside of the big main office. These stations bear similar relation to the general office that the Fair Haven post office does to the main office here. Then a large number of New Haven letters will by this extra public accommodation, go at lightning speed straight to their destina- tion, instead of having first to go to the main office for distribution.
 Postmaster Sperry's recent address at the convention of postal clerks recently ened much flatter1ng comment and wide spread interest It crystalized facts of weight relative to the importance, growth, extent and dangers o1 the service and the great zeal and efficiency the service required and all in most graphic and telling words. The address has received warm praise from sources
 where it's force and value would be most
 thoroughly appreciated. His counsel ano
 encouragement given with reference te
 the special merit plan of promotion, il
 to the postal service; his reference to the
 enormous growth of the postal clerk de
 partment service since the days when As
 sistant Postmaster Boyd was one of tn,
 pioneers in this branch of public service
 his reference to the vicissitudes and tn,
 dangers to life and limb attending thi
 branch of the service; the accidents, in
 cluding loss of life and limb averaging on
 per day; his suggestion in favor of thu adoption of the English plan of com pensation, were all features of an ad
 mirable address In the English plal
 a man who has been in the servic
 for twenty-five years as clerk is allowed
 an annuity, and upon retirement from ser ) vice from loss or serious impairment o eyesight or from becoming maimed in tn
 service he receives pension, or if killet
 in the service his family, if he has one receives it.. There are five thousand en gagged in this branch of the postal servic alone in the United States. A strikin, instance was related by MT. Sperry of tn . importance of unremitting vigilance in tn service and loyalty to duty. This was
 case where the delay of twenty-four hour
 in the delivery of an important letter des ] tined to business house in Providence R. l., but sent by mistake of the clerk t Palmer, Mass, caused the financial ruin o ) the house and the dragging down of severa other business houses in direct conse quence, all from this twenty-four hours delay. MT. Sperry's remarks upon tn ! physical and mental tension and strai , ! incident to the work, it's unremitting call for vigilance, it's dangers and it's obliga tions, spoke of an appreciation of the wor in the department born only of long ex perience in postal affairs.
 In his closing remarks he counselle ] such zeal and devotion to the service a would thoroughly supplement the effort
 of our postmaster-general to make tn ! service throughout rebound still more 1 | the honor and glory of our great nation.