The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-06
WORRY ABOUT MAIL ! SERVICE IN COREY Ensley Is Also Causing
 Considerable Trouble WANT TO GIVE BEST Officials at Washington Are Inclined to Think That Electric Cars
 Can Handle It With
 Greatest Dispatch
WANT TO GIVE BEST
By WALTER HARPER

Washington, September 5.-tSpecial)-It has been reported in Washington that at last. after weeks and months of hard work on the part of Corey people and clerks and officials in the postoffice de- partment at Washington, a postoffiee has been opened at Corey. The officials Tn the department have taken an unusual interest in the proper establishment of this office on account of the seeming im- portance of the location and the demand for service.
 The inspectors who reported on the lo.- cation of the office impressed the of- ficials with the growing possibilities of Corey and the immediate necessity for first class mall service. .
 The delay in getting the office open and the service started was due to several causes. The transportation of the mail from the Birmingham office was one of the main difficulties. The department of ficials thought that the same system used in carrying the mail to Ensley should be used In transporting the mail to the new office at Corey. Ensley had begun a campaign in the department to have the mail for that office brought direct over the steam lines without reference to the Birmingham office.
 Through some misunderstanding it was believed that the Corey office had been mail handled temporarily on the street cars until the Ensley question could be settled. When 1t was discovered that no arrangement for the delivery of mail to Corey had been affected, and that the of- fee had not been opened immediately, orders were issued for the office to be opened and a contract was closed with the Birmingham Railway, Light and Pow CT company for the transportation of the mail
 The matter of delivering the mail to Ensley will be decided later. At the pres ent time the Ensley postoffice is being served through the Birmingham postoffice and the mail is being delivered on ex- press electric cars.
 The department officials cannot seem to understand that Ensley would get it's mail in any better shape or with more dispatch over the steam lines direct. Fart of the mail directed to Ensley would naturally have to pass through the Birmingham of flee, and 1t is the belief here that such mail would be delayed if it was held over for steam train delivery to Ensley.
 The department wants to give Ensley the best service possible, but it has not yet been convinced of the advantages of the plan offered. In fact, it Is under stood that the department regards Ensley as a part of Birmingham, and the pre- vailing opinion is that eventually it will have to be regarded as such in the hand ling of the mails
 Of course, the people of Ensley will ob- ject strenuously to being made a sub station of the Birmingham office, but this Is a possibility of the not far distant fu- ture. The department is striving both for the efficient delivery of mails and for the greatest economy.
 At this distance Ensley looks like a part of the city of Birmingham, and if 1t can be supplied with mail with as great dispatch and with greater economy through the Birmingham postoffice, this plan will probably be continued.
 However, the officials have left the matter open for while longer. and are ready and anxious to hear from the people who are most affected
 When the Washington Star gets dis gusted with its own blatant inconsis-