Arizona republican., 1911-05-19
POsTOFF|CE
 REGULATIONS Rules Governing Sunday
 Closing In Phoenix WHO CAN GET THEIR MAIL Plans for Partial Service to Carrier Patrons by Pay ment of Special Delivery Fees in Advance-Other Details of Rules.
WHO CAN GET THEIR MAIL

Beginning next Sunday. May 21, Phoenix is to have Sunday closing of the postoffice as nearly as il can be secured under an order recently issued by the department, responsive to pc tition signed. it is said, Icy some 2.50O patrons of the Phoenix office. The purpose is to secure the largest pos sible relief from Sunday work for the postoffice employees. The net result will be that only the carriers. whose limit of work under the law is forty eight hours per week. will be relieved entirely of Sunday work. while the postoffice clerks by systematizing their shifts into regular turns to care for such service as must still he given. will secure every third Sunday off In- cidentalIy there is bound to te some confusion while the public is being edu- cated to the somewhat complicated system, and only boXhOlders and gener- al delivery patrons can have the same. complete service as heretofore, while the boxes of the offices are already all sold and there is no room to place an added supply.
 III SOlllt l1blllAS lllf ~ Sltlll islplfOSttu though studied out as closely as il can be by the postmaster in accordance with his instructions presents some perplexities that. if overcome at all, can only be relieved after experiment. and there is bound to be dissatisfaction in some quarters by those who do not understand the rules or who will not like them when they do not under stand them. The subject can best be understood by first perusing the new schedule of office hours for both Sun | day and week day service as announced i by the postmaster. and attention is called to the fact that the Sunday hour 1 for general delivery service is just one | hour earlier than heretofore. Office ScheduIe-Effective May 21. 1o11.{
 Stamp division week days J1ly, S:30 | a. m. to D. m.
 Registry division. week days only. | S:3O 2. m. 10 s D. m.
 Money order division, weeK days only, a. m. to D. m.
 Sundays. for general delivery patrons 1 only, a. m. to 10 a. m, instead of l0 | 10 II.
 Sunday and Holiday Service.
 Stamp. registry and money order windows will not be opened.
 Box service will be given as usual |
 Carrier and rural carrier windows will not be opened.
 Special delivery on Sundays of first class mail may be secured on written request given carriers or window clerks, accompanied by payment of 10 cents fee, or deposit of special delivery stamp. for each piece Of mail desired so handled. This notice preferably should be given on Saturday.
 JAS H McCLINTOCK.
 Postmaster
 The rules to be in force on ard after next Suiday are as follows:
 All Sunday carrier service will be suspended in the Phoenix postoffice. A single carrier collection will be made in the afternoon of Sundays constitut- ing the only carrier work, this being in accordance with a recommendation contained in circular letter issued by the first assistant postmaster general.
 Special delivery mail will be handled on Sundays by special messenger serv- ice. If carrier patrons wish special delivery of their Sunday mail, a writ ten request should be made to that effect. through the regular carriers. or addressed to Special Delivery Sec tion, PostOffice" For this service the usual fee of 10 cents for each letter will be collected. 4 patron expecting d particular letter on Sunday. should sometime before Sunday. furnish the carrier or the special delivery section with a description designating the let ter, together with the ten cents neces- sary. or special delivery stamp, so the letter expected may be delivered at specified address.
 It will be useless to ask for carrier mail at the general delivery windows. a as the bulk of mail involved renders impracticable any special handling of carrier letters. other than indicated above. IL should be appreciated by the "a public also. that there may bede lay in carrier deliveries. due to the cutting off Of Sunday carrier work
 Box patrons will be served as usual. ( Business firms may have Sunday mail placed in boxes. though delivered by l carriers on week days.
 The general delivery windows will Q be open from to 10 for general de- livery patrons only '
 The money order. registry and stamp i windows will be closed. |
 1t will be noted by the reader that these changes will effect some confu- ( sion inside the office as well as out 1 side. Distributing clerks will have to l learn what mail is segregated from the weekly carrier routes, to be placed I in boxes on Sundays. Also the spe- cial delivery section will have a lively time going through all the mail in the | carrier departments. looking for the ordinary letters. which addressees have paid 10 cents each to have specially { delivered in the event Of their arrival 1 If they are not delivered. the patron C will most likely imagine it was the i oversight Of the special delivery service, c