Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-03
CHANGES MADE
 IN POSTOFFICE
POSTMASTER CASSIDY SHORTEN ED THE HOURS OF WORK
 FOR CLERKS.
Earlier Closing of Office Windows and the Reasons Therefor-New Rules Went Into Effect Last Evening. Otner Changes Coming.

People who filled the postoffce last evening after 6:S0 p. m. in quest of mail at the general delivery windows met with disappointment, subsequent to which there was considerable pro test or the streets.
 The postofice regulations provide that offices of the Bisbee class may close at 6 p. n. Heretofore the gen eral delivery windows have been kept open until 7:15 at the Bisbee office, though former Postmaster McCabe for a time closed at 6. Postmaster Gas sidy has decided to close the general delivery windows at 6:30. This was the ruling which went in effect last night. Coming unexpectedly it occa- stoned disappointment among those who had appeared at the old hours for their mail. Asked about the matter last night. Postmaster Cassidy said:
 "The clerks in the office come on duty at in the morning. When the windows are kept open until 7:15 these clerks are obliged to remain in the of flee until s or after in order to con clude their work. The change is made to G:20 because it does not seem right that these clerks should be work ed such long hours, and because 1 do not believe that they can give as eff cient service to the public when over worked as they can when their hours are made moderate. It seems to me that they are getting in more time than are any other employees in Bisbee when we call on them to work from $ in the morning until after at night, and I do not believe that when the people of this city look at it in that light they will do other than endorse the action taken in cutting three-quar- ters of an hour off the time the gen eral delivery windows are open.
 "As to other department windows in the office. the money order office will close hereafter at 5:30, and the regis try office at o'clock. With these changes it will be possible to conduct the office with much more ease and with better service to the public. be- lieve, than could be managed with the longer hours. Keeping the general delivery windows open until 7:15 dis arranged every department in the of fee and made it particularly hard to serve the box renters iD the manner they should be served at night. As for the distribution of mail from the in- coming evening trains, all letters will be put in the boxes at night as hereto fore. Letter mail for the general de livery window will also be handled to the extent that is possible to the hour of closing When the evening trains are late the office will remain open to receive and distribute until 7:30. feel confident that in a short time the public will adjust itself to the new or der of things, and that no ircOnYeni- ence will then be felt
 Are there other changes in pros pect?" the postmaster was asked.
 'Yes, there are; but these will not be made immediately" MT. Cassidy replied The most important of these will be doing away with the use of the boxes Of renters by others than the renters. h explanation, your mail only can go in your box. That of your friends, neighbors or employees will have to go into their individual boxes CT through the general delivery window This is provided for explic- itly in an order from the ofhce of the postmaster general. Just as soon as we get things well in hand in the of fee this order will have to be enfOrc- ed along with all others that the post office department has stipulated for offices of this class"