The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-01-26
INFORMATION
As to Postal Affairs That
Will Interest the
Public,

All parties concerned are notified
that a mistaken notion has prevailtd d
about mail matter deposited in the
letter box at the Big Four railroad
station, towit, that letters so depos-
tied are sorted by the mail clerk of
each mail train, and that he takes
only the letters that 60 in the direc-
tion his train is going. He does not
do this: he has no time to sort 1t.
Each clerk who goes to the box,
takes all the mail there is in 1t. On
the train, he sorts it, takes what be-
longs to his route, and drops at the
first exchange station or gives to the
first mail car he meets, all the ma !
that goes in other directions than
that which his train covers. So that
it is likely that many letters are de-
layed, rather than forwarded, by
being dropped in the box at the sta
tion.
1t has been the intention of the
Postmaster to change this condition
of affairs by placing four boxes at
the railroad station. marked NORTH =
South" East and West" at
points that will designate by their
location the direction letters placed
in them will take, so that the public
may have better service. There has
been delay in getting an allowance
for the work, but 1t will be done
soon.
The Office has secured from the
Department an order to permit an
exchange of letters by rural carriers
at different points, in the county. to
facilitate their rapid transmission.
The following order was received
from the Department at Washing
ton, yesterday.
I'm accordance with your request
of recent date, you are advised that
arrangements have been made for
the removal of two collection boxes
on Route No. /, from your office. in
order to enable an exchange of mail
between Carrier No. from West
Liberty and Carrier No. 1 from De-
Graf, with Carrier No. from Belle
fontaine; and the Postmasters Of
said Offices have been notified to di-
rect their carriers to deposit in the
respective boxes and collect from
them, all mail, the delivery or dis
patch of which may be expedited by
so doing, and you will instruct your
carriers accordingly.
"You are also advised that the
Postmaster at West Mansfield has
been requested to instruct Carrier
No. 2, from his Office to deposit in
and collect from the q. S. collection
box at New Jerusalem, all mail which
may be expedited by so doing, and
you will also instruct Carrier No. 9
from your Office; accordingly"
Under this exchange arrangement,
letters that Bellefontaine carrier No.
l, picks up on his route, for West
Liberty and DeGraff, will be forward
ed at once to those points, instead of
being brought to the Bellefontaine
Office and forwarded the next day;
and the same will be done with let
tiers picked up on the other routes
for Bellefontaine, instead of carry
ing them to DtGraif and West Liber-
ty to be forwarded to Bellefontaine
the next day. Letters to parties on
the same routes, may be exchanged
and delivered the same day.
By the exchange with the West
Mansfield carrier, mail for Bellefon'
taine and West Mansfield will be
sent direct the same day, and parties
along both routes will have direct
mail communication.
1t is hoped this arrangement may
add no little to the effectiveness. oi
rural service.
PARCELS-PoST PACKAGES.
The Bellefontaine postoffice hai
been equipped for the parcels-pos'
business, under which unsealed pack
ages, weighing not over clever
pounds, may be sent at twelve cents
a pound to the following countries
Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas
British Honduras, Mexico, the Lee
ward Islands, Colombia, Salvador
Costa Rico, The Danish West Indies
British Guiana, The Windward Is
lands, Newfoundland, the Republic
of Honduras, Trinidad, Chilli, Ger
many, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Ney
Zealand. Bolivia aud Hong Kong.
J. O. A. CAMPBELL, Postmaster.