The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-04
RURAL LETTER CARRIERS.
They Are Urged to Attend Next
Meeting of Association.

the Rural Carriers of Ellis County:
think we are not looking after our
association business as closely as
we should At least | know | am not
doing as much as | should. | believe
there are forty-four carriers in the
county and we should not be salts
fed with less than a membership of
three-fourths at least. | have just
finished making out my report of
February business for Uncle Sam
and the dear people and | find that
| am paid a little more than one and
one-half cents for each piece of mail
handled during February, which is
two days shorter than either Janu
airy or March. In January | travelled
72S miles delivering my mail, my
expenses were $500 for the same
month, not including about $1,000
expenses incidental to a few cases
of lagrippe. You will notice that |
have operated on rather a small
margin of profit which will likely
sound strange to any one not a ru-
raj carrier
l should not have mentioned any
figures relative to expenses in this
letter were it not for the fact that
this letter will be read by a number
of our patrons in this county.
know something of the circulation of
the Enterprise and f@know the far
mers generally like to read it, and
also believe that while our farmer
| friends are sitting in their homes by
comfortable fires on cold wintry days
that there is warm and sympathet-
ic place in their hearts for the faith
full rural carrier. 1t is pleasure for
the carrier to be able to fully salts
fly his patrons; it's our pleasure TO
try to leave every one contented even
if the service is not costing the pa
iron one cent. Now just here / speak
my opinion freely. There are some
few citizens in some communities,
and perhaps in all communities, who
are not getting the benefits of rural
delivery as perhaps they should get
it.
1t is not now, nor has it ever been
the intention of the postal depart
ment to discriminate, but to treat
all alike in so far as possible and
to place free delivery over every
public and sometimes private road,
| if by so doing the service could be
made complete. In other words |
would say that the people of Ellis
county are entitled to county service
| as a complete rural free delivery of
i their mail, with only the exceptions
that road connections justify.
Other counties are procuring and
have established county service and
! if the people of Ellis county will
only ask their congressman for a
more complete mail service there is
no reason why they should not get
| it. OF course we understand that the
esta blishing of complete service will
| benefit the farmer and land owner
perhaps more than any one else.
But the fact remains that Ellis coun-
| ty is entitled to a more complete
system of mail delivery and no one
has the right to dispute or deny. 1t
stands to reason that more men will
be required to handle the mail be-
cause more territory will be covered
and more mail handled and more re-
ceipts for the different post Offices
! and consequently more pay for the
postmasters of the third and fourth
class.
| In my opinion the much talked
of Parcels Post bill as proposed will
be both satisfactory and profitable
to those directly concerned. | see
| no chance for any one to be hurt
! but the express companies who have
been handling a certain kind Of bus
! mess for the public for years with
out a competitor and invariably
charged for their service without
reason or rule. 1t is to be hoped
that in Uncle Sam they will have a
competitor with whom they will
have to reckon.
A number of citizens Of this
! county have asked how complete
delivery of mail could be obtained.
In my candid opinion it can be made
almost complete where road connec-
tons are properly arranged and !
further believe it will be done il
the rural citizenship of the county
ask for it and those opposing the
perfecting of this important work
will likely do SO prompted by sell
| fish motives.
| hope to meet the carriers of Ell
! lis county in our next regular meet
| ing which is the first Saturday night
| in April at the courthouse in Waxa-
hachie Everyone interested in pub