The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-24
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
MORE ABOUT THE R. F. D. SYSTEM.

LONG GREEN, Nd, December 2lst, 1904.
MessTs. Editors I'm the last issue of TIE
Sardinr the mail Service in which he tried to ex
plain to the public the great benefits derived by
Rural Free Delivery. He states that only one
b. works everywhere as it does here don't be-
lieve he could find one person in nifty TO favor
it. for it is anything but satisfactory here. 10
Glen Arm r. +. D. that derive any benefit from
It and these are Mr.. Refer and Mr.. Pearce-the
former being the postmaster ana Dutcner, ana
the latter carries the mail and delivers the meat
for Mr.. Refer, so you can readily see why MT.
Pearce says 1t Is so great
He also says the people fail to see the benefit
of r. F. D. That is so. When Mr.. Pearce tried
to get this route established he said all that was
SO and much that was not so. or he never would
have succeeded in securing any elgners.
He further says that Observation teaches us
that no one opposes r. +. ID. unless they live
only a short distance from postofhce. That 10
so when they are benefited, but when II Is
nuisance like this one is, they have cause to kick.
He says that for various reasons people OPP
pose r. F. d. and let themselves be heard. In
this case they have just cause, for their mail Is
received several hours later than by the old sys.
tenn and it takes four days to get return mail
from Baltimore which is only a miles IRON q mere:
that only comes q few miles, besides scores OF
other nuisances instead of benefits.
In referring to the star route system he says
the mail left Long Green Station at 9 O'Clock.
He Is mistaken for It left at $50, thence to Long
Green p. o. at o O'Clock, thence to Knoebel and
Hlenuclms
perfectly satisfied with the system and received
their mail promptly. He says the mail he car
ries leaves Glen-Arm at O'Clock and returning
arrives at O'Clock, covering 200 miles and serv,
ing nearly 200 families. Mr.. Pearce does travel
700 miles, but along AZ of them he does not de-
liver any mail at all. This is continuous
stretch. He covers TX miles that another Il. +.
d. carrier travels and serves less than 100 fami-
lies instead of 200.
He saws persons who have proper mail boxes
are not required to wait for the carrier. Well,
there was O letter deposited In one OF these
boxes and the carrier failing to take It out after
being there two days, the person who deposited
It took it to q post0fdce and mailed 1t.
II am not opposed TO the X. +. ID. system ana
believe It to be good thing in some communi,
ties but when 1t Is nuisance, like this one is,
have Just cause to kick. Our mail is about one
and half to two hours later and we have to wait
nearly four days for return mail from Baltimore
and elsewhere. 1t would have been much bet
ter had Mr.. Pearce attended to his own business
and let other peoples affairs alone and fully
explained the h. F. d. system when he was so
Letting signers to his petition. But be know
that if he had done so he would never have nag
| the honor of running the II. +. ID. route. Int
| system here is q disadvantage to many and {
| benefit to q very few. j. +. GODFREY koLK.