The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-21
Morning Mail Coming Over l.. & N. Will Be Only
 Little Late
EFFECT. OF CUT HAS
 BEEN EXAGGERATED
Postmaster Montgomery Says Service on Only One Train Is Af- fected and That Not
 Seriously

Beginning tomorrow morning the post office department will institute a new schedule for carriers which will enable the delivery of all northern and eastern malls coming in over Louisville and Nash vile train No. at 8:25 a. m. to be made practically at the same time as hereto fore.
 A statement to this effect was made last night by Postmaster J. H. Mont gomery who wishes to assure the publld that the reports concerning the delay to business interests by the reduction of the postoffice cars on Louisville and Nashville train No to apartment cars are altogether delusory.
 Postmaster Montgomery states that v Is his intention to cut the delivery or mails in the business section from five tJ four times day in order to concentrate his forces during the rush Tn making ur the mails and he says that the malls coming to Birmingham over Louisville and Nashville train No. 1 will be dis tributedand delivered by 10 o'clock, which is only one hour later than the former schedule
 He declares that cny the small lot or mail picked up between Birmingham and Decatur is virtually affected by the re- duction of the service on train No. and if there are mail orders reaching Birm- ingham in this mail he says that with the new arrangement the merchants will have at least an hour and quarter in which to have them filled in time for the north bound Louisville and Nashville mail leav- ing here at 12.15 o'clock.
 The postmaster states that all of the mails coming from Louisville and beyond are worked in transit before reaching Decatur While the eastern mails re- ceived at that point from the Southern railway will be a little delayed, the mail order interests will not be affected at all.
 q am sure the people are taking too seriously the question of the failure TO work the mail for carrier delivery which is received on Louisville and Nashville train No 1 arriving here at S:25 o'clock in the morning." said Postmaster Mont gomery '"rhe service on this train is the only one affected by the order of the Postmaster General reducing the postof- flee cars. and I am now at work on schedule to be effective on Wednesday by which I will be able to begin the de- livery of all the mail affected by the or der by 10 o'clock each morning. This makes the delivery only one hour later than IL was DeIOre tne oiuer "ohI in,o effect and an hour earlier than 1t IS now being delivered.
 If this order is a discrimination, it is almost an immaterial discrimination, in view of the fact that the postOffice force is able to prevent any delay of delivery of more than one hour to the business section and no delay at all to the resident section. Under the plan which shall put in operation Wednesday, I hope to get some of this mail delivered as formerly, but as to this possibility I am not quite sure. Every effort will be made to carry out the plan of the postmaster general with convenience to the business inter- ests, but if every means shall have failed to secure the public against any great delay in the delivery. of the mails, then 1t will be time enough for us to sak that the order be rescinded."