The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-10
PosToFFlcE CLOSED SUNDAYS.

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as far as the delivery of mail through
the letter carriers windows is cor
cerned. Postmaster Moorehead yester
DAY received personal letter from
First Assistant Postmaster General c
r Grandfield authorizing him to dis
continue the Sunday delivery service
Il by carriers in view of the fact thai
the sentiment of the community il
favorable to granting the carriers ar
unbroken day OF rest, as shown by the
/ signatures of patrons OF the office or
the cards circulated by those postal
employees. In all, 434 persons receiv.
ing mail at the local postoffice peti.
TONED that the carriers windows be
Kept closed on Sundays. and only
twenty-five persons all told refused TO
sign. 1t is estimated that the sisners
TO the petition comprise about a5 per
cent of the mail-receiving population
OF keokuk. In view of this over
wheiming preponderance OF sentiment
the procedure seems wholly justified.
he usual force of clerks will be on
outy on Sundays TO receive and dis
patch mails, distribute mail to The
boxes and serve at the general de-
livery window. These clerks will be
allowed compensatory time during the
week and will thus benefit BIZ the new
order of things.
The postoftice building will be omen
at all hours day and night, as here
tofore, for the accommodation OF
patrons having lock boxes. Business
men and firms who desire their mail
regularly on Sundays will be permit
ted to rent boxes into which their mail
VIII be placed on Sundays, even
though their mail is delivered to them
by carriers on the other days of the
week. The special delivery service
VIII be in operation as usual following
the arrival of all incoming mails.
The general delivery window will he (
kept open from lo: 80 a. m. u. til IL: 80
a. m. for the sale of stamps and to
accommodate the travelling public
whose mail is SO addressed. 1t is ex-
Dected that regular patrons or the Of /
ice will refrain from calling at the /
delivery window on Sundays
unless there is urgent necessity for
nall To accommodate patrons whose
nail is delivered by carriers on week
lays and who desire to obtain import
mt letters on Sundays. ARRANGEMENTS
VII De made to deliver such mail
through the general delivery window
'etWeen the hours above named up-
N payment Of the prescribed fee for
peeial delivery service. To secure
MS service the postmaster mist be
Gifted in writing before n m ON
he Saturday preceding that such call
VII be made for mail This notice
llst De repeated from week to week.
nese provisions are required in order
nat the distributing clerks will have :
WAYS at hand a live" list of patrons :
no want their mail, so that they nav
eparate such mail from the bulk {
INCH is set aside to be worked over t
y the carriers on Monday morning.
here will be no Sunday afternoon !
OF mail from the street let
r boxes. Patrons desiring to have /
ieir mail dispatched on the evening
night trains, or If it is city mail to
delivered on the first trip Monday !
orning, mus deposit it in the post.
fice.
Under the new arrangement the +
,rriers will report thirty minutes in S
vance OF the present schedule on c
onoay mornings in order to route s
lie sunday accumulation of mail AS y
ey are the principal benefciaries of !,
e movement for Sunday closing. it r
expected that they will make such n
ira efforts as will enable them TO VI
ute their mail and leave the office n
schedule time. They will be re-
llred TO complete their work within
rty-eight hours during the week. as
present. n,
1t is hoped and believed that the ar. tc
ngement TO afford the letter car
ers day Of rest viii be successful
heokuk Sunday closing has work "
Wen elsewhere, even in as large CT
ties as New York, Chicago. Cjncin.
- - dSO'iS, i'ctIolI ana San Fran
$50 AS matter OF TACT. SUNDAY b,
an. like lots of other things. il II
rgely habit that is soon forgotten b.
ter It is once dispensed with. # IL
sort Of social luxury which costs
ore tnan it Is worth when the fact Ia
taken into consideration that If ST.
axes one class of men work from So
eek end to week end. Keeping the mr.
.rflefs windows closed on SUNDAYS
III entail no serious or even an.
=. eeiapie loss upon anyone, while II at,
III be great benefit and gratific. ~
On TO me men whom IT will release M
y SUNDAY rest and recreation. VI
~ mas been well said that the o,eo
on OF sunday closing need NOT no
lscussed along sabbatarian or ra,is. ~
,us grounds; that it can be traatad -,
lureiy from business point Of yien, -
i'nout IN the least impairing tba r.
'fce OF the arguments in favor 80 s' 70
enerai observance of dav az ra.. ~
support OF this view it is noin+s st, Na
Ut that merchants and otbars 'su
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