The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-09
NEW REGISTRATION SYSTEM.
TIERS AT THE DOORS OF
THEIR PATRONS.

New System of, House to House
Registration OF valuable Letters
VIII Be Inaugurated in Savannah
ON March 15-To Do Away with
the Necessity of Carrying Letters
system Will BE Worked and What
1t Is Intended to eAccompIish--For
the Present Only the Residential
section of the City VIII he In
cIuded in Its Operation.
March 15 the Savannah Postoffiee will
inaugurase a systeIneof registering valu-
able letters never attempted before in this
city, nor in many others in the South.
In this section of the country Savannah
is among the first, If not the first city
in which the system will be introduced.
The new system has for its object the
registration of letters by carriers at the
house doors of those 20 whom they de-
liver mail and will obviate the necessity
of the sender of valuable letter going
with it to The central office and having II
registered there. The scheme is a novelty
to Savannah people but it is hoped by
the department and by Postmaster Doyle
that it will become rapidly popular and
that il will soon demonstrate its time
saving and annoyance-preventing useful
ness to the public.
When the system is inaugurated the
patron who desires to register a letter
has but to stop the carrier who delivers
mail at his house, or hail him as he passes
along the street, and inform him of this
intention. The letter should be properly
prepared for registration beforehand, by
adding to the requisite amount of post
age for its transmission through the mails
8 cents in stamps for the registration fee.
The name and address of the sender should
accompany the name and address of the
sendee on the envelope, that failure
TO deliver it promptly may be followed by
a prompt return TO the former.
A glance at the letter to see if il is
properly stamped and that it bears the
names of those persons whose names the
regulations of the department demand, is
all that is permitted of the carrier. Should
the letter be in proper form and properly
stamped, he will receive it and issue a
receipt for it, detaching a blank from a
book with which he is provided for that
purpose. He retains a carbon copy of the
receipt TO turn in at the office.
If desired those who wish to have car
rier register letter may substitute the
exact amount of money necessary to COW
er the postage and registration fee for the
same amount in stamps and the carrier
will accept this just as readily. He is not
expected or permitted, however, TO lose
time in making change for customers, and
the exact change should be handed to him
with the letter that is to be registered.
The carriers are to be provided with what
are known as information cards" that
I'll to bn no
system of house to house registration OF
letters by carriers, a 5 well as the generally
known and understood rules of the post
office as to registration and the fee that
is charged. When information is sought or
letter that is offered is not in proper
shape for registration the carrier will hand
out one of these cards and pass on to the
next house 1t is presumed that before
the carriers next trip the intended sender
of the letter will have so acquainted him.
self with the rules as TO be able to prepare
the letter properly, and avoid thus unnec-
essary and, TO the carrier, prohibited de-
lay. -l.
lions that has been issued says: Carriers
must be thoroughly impressed Wi III the
feet that they are to spend no more Tune
in the registration of letter than Is nee
essary to write the receipt and promptly
deliver it, While they are required TO
be always courteous anu ACSlN~NAN' ~
pa irons. they are positively forbidden 70
engage in discussion. glance VIII tell
if a letter is properly prepared Tor regis
tration If il be, the carrier Will write
the receipt; if not, he will simply decnhe
and hand out card of information, whlch
will explain his REFUSAL
At the central office the letters the
carriers have collected for registration
for which they have issued receipts will
he turned over to a clerk specially de-
tailed for the purpose, who Will see 20 the
other details necessary to be complied
with before registered letters are started
on the way to their destinations.
The instructions to carriers recite that
their responsibility for letters entrusted
to them is absolute, and that no excuse
will be accepted for loss or mistreatmen
For the present and until the popularity
and success of the system is demonstrat-
ed by actual experiment, the system Will
not be put in operation in other than the
purely residential sections of the city, and
even there business houses will be eX-
cluded from its advantages 1t is the pur
pose of the department, though, to in
clude the business houses in the reside
tial sections and then the business section
itself IN the operation of the system, as
soon as this is found to be practicable.
The idea is to permit both the carriers.
and the patrons to familiarize themselves
with the system, 50 that delay will not
result from the ignorance of either the one
or the other.
The system has been tried with much
success in the large cities Of the North
and West, where IL has gradually become
more and more popular Some time, OF
course, is necessary before the public gets
into the habit of making use of the adj
vantages the system offers, but with ia
miliarty comes popularity and constant
use. 1t is predicted and Postmaster Doyle
believes that the same result will be at
tanned here