The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1903-03-21
Uncle Sans Alleged I'm.
prOvements In Our
Local Mails.
PostOfficeS at WOOdlawn and Prin-
cipiO Abolished, Those at Farm
ingtOn, GreenhurSt, Theodore,
Leslie, Bay View, Zion, and Me
chanicS' Valley Marked for Abol-
itiOn.

As readers of The Wing" are gcncr-
ally aware. the General Post Office De-
pultment ut Washington. is substituting
as rapidly as possible, the system known
as the Rural Free Mail delivery, i'll the
place of the local post-oilicc and the Old
Star Route method. BY this new. and
what its friends claim for it, improved
system. the delivery of all mail matter
by carriers, Immediately mt the homes.
or places of business of those located on
its routes, is its most advantageous feat
ure. All n farmer has to do. is to see to
it that the mail box at his gate is i'm
order, and the carrier will do the rest.
Daily, his mail will be delivered Mt the
box, and whatever mail matter it con-
tainS will be collected by the carrier,
and delivered without failure at the re-
ceiving office. This and other features of
the new system, which put the rural
patrons of the mails, upon an equal foot
ing with those residing in large towns
and cities, it must be admitted are its
best features. 1t delivers at the ad-
dreSsee's door, all mail matter, saves the
time and trouble of sending to distant
post-oflice. and is doubtless an up-to-date
and progressive feature of the new Sys-
TEN.
1t furnishes postal money orders. and
quick delivery stamps ut the farmers
gate, the carrier being provided with all
modern facilities for the ready transmits
sion of mail matter.
1t is not surprising therefore, that all
farmers. and other persons living along
the lines of the Rural Free Mail Delivery
Routes favor it. They receive their daily
mail regularly, with less trouble to them
selves and more certainty, than under
the old system, when they were compelled
to send to the nearest post-otlicc over
roads almost impossible in the winter
season.
To them the new system. is undoubt
edly a great Improvement over the old
method.
Under the X. +. u. system. already
established in Cecil county. the post
offices at Woodlawn and Principio have
been abolished and in short time those
at Pennington. Grcenhurst Theodore.
Leslie, Bay View. Zion and Mechanics
Valley will follow suit about April 1st.
But rs usual. no system whatever its
advantages generally. will serve all
=
the majority of those living along the
Rural Routes are better served than
under the old system. the abolition of the
local post.oiccS. works considerable de
lay and Inconvenience to those living at
or near them.
Take the case of II merchant. or other
business man. living ut Grccnhurst as an
illustration. where four-ffths of the
patrons of the local post-oflce were. and
still are opposed to its abolition. Here
toforr Il business patron of that office,
could mail II letter ut half past eight
O'Clock any day of the week except Sun
day, and in twcnty-four hours have Il
reply from Philadelphia. Baltimore or
Wilmington. His letter would 90 to
Port Deposit. and from there by close
railroad connections to either of the
cities. and aS stated if his business was
pressing. he could have Il reply by the
same hour the next day.
But under the new system. he must
wait until II o'clock. Il. m, to have his
mail collected by the Il. +. ID. carrier,
who cannot complete his route and de-
liver his mail at the Rising Sun before
three o'clock i'll the afternoon, where his
letter would be rc-maled for Philadel.
phia mt 4.45 y. m, the same day and
would not be delivered to its address be.
fore the following morning, delaying the
reply thereto, at Greenhurst just twenty
four hours.
To the merchant or business man To-
Gated at Bay view or Zion, the same
condition will prevail Under the old
system the first morning mail would
leave daily except Sunday, at an early
hour be delivered ut North East by
O'Clock the same morning, and his letters
containing business orders or other mat
ter would be delivered in Philadelphia
or Baltimore the same day, and be re
piled to, within "A hours of their mailing
time at Bay View. Under the X. +. ID
delivery system au additional day vii
be required, aS the carrier cannot com
plete his route in time for any connect
ion. earlier than the afternoon mails, "A
Port Deposit or North East.
1t will he seen therefore, that the abol
ition of the local poSt-Otfces. will worl
Inconvenience and delay in the transmits
sion of mail matter. to all business mel
located near the abolished offices.
The demand of our times is for uuc
delivery of all mail matter. Under tn
new system, the out bound mails froI
the distributing points.-Port Deposit
North East, Rising Sun, as it may be
are delivered earlier than under the oil
system, hut the reverse is the case wher
the daily inbound mails cannot be deliI
ere6 before each afternoon daily, an