The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-17
ANACONDA WANTS IT
The City Has Waited Long Enough
for Free Post Delivery.
BUSI NESS CALLS FOR III
Besides. Those Long Waits at the
PostoffIce Window Should BE
Done Away With-Many
Reasons Advanced.

The need of a free delivery Of the
mails mas long been felt in this city.
and a move to secure the deserved rec
ognition from the postal department is
now under way.
The requisites are more than filled
by Anaconda, the revenue OF the Office
amounts to more than $4,000 per year,
the population served is more than
10000 people, the streets are named and
sidewalked, and the houses are very
nearly all numbered.
The mail received at the Anaconda
office Is greater than can be handled
with any degree of satisfaction and
Postmaster Edwards will join gladly
and earnestly in a move TO petition the
postal authorities for this Improvement
of the service.
Every day long lines of men stand
and walt their turn at the general de-
livery window, sometimes for an hour
or more, before those in the rear of
the row reach the clerk. The boxes are
all taken and IL is impossible to serve
the public in any other way than that
now in operation.
Senator l.. ID. Mats, who is now In
Washington on business was commits
stoned by a few of those interested to
visit the proper authorities and lay be-
fore them the needs of the city and to
show them the figures which entitle
Anaconda to this improvement.
In the meantime for the benefit of
those who are compelled to depend up
on getting their mail through the gem
eral delivery If people would take few
precautions at home much of the de-
lay might be obviated. There are school
children, three and four in the same
family, who call for mail two and three
times a day each. If the father of such
a flock will designate one of them to
rat hA xxFfll wit
ems of unnecessary inquiries at the
postoffice, and the bachelors in waiting
will be duly grateful
The ladies always get recognition
from the line No matter how long the
men have been standing there, when
lady happens along they step back and
she gets the preference at the wicket.
Some of the women, sad to say, abuse
the kindness and call for all the neigh
boris mail before they step aside and
by that time another woman gets the
privilege of the floor and before the
day Is done each of the half dozen
neighbors whose mail has been inquired
for calls and thus six people make SO
calls at the delivery window.
Some OF the little girls. little but old
enough TO fiirt, have been caught cheat
ing the poor fellows in line. Meeting
by chance a man outside. the misses
step in at the door and get the mail
for the man outside. while the gallant
boys in line think they have done a
proper honor to the sex i'm giving the
girl chance at the window, but the
fellow on the outside winks at the little
miss who got his letters for him and
goes his way rejoicing. It's a cute
trick, but when the same girl does the
same thing eight to ten times in an aft
ernoon II gets stale for the 10th man
in the row who has not dined.
1t is now more than likely during the
coming summer the Office will be ad-
vanced to free delivery service, which
will do away with these tedious waits
and delays. No petition has been cir
culated as II is believed the change
may be effected without that form, but
If action is not taken soon such meas
ures will be taken.