Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-29
SOUTH MADE TO BEAR
BRUNT Of ECONOMY
IN POSTAL SERVICE
Service in Republican Districts
Has Not Been Curtailed, 1t
Is Said = Mckee Returns
Monday Afternoon

Postmaster Hugh L.McKee didn't arrive
Sunday from Washington, where he has
spent week trying to get his force Of
clerks and carriers increased. but he is
expected Tuesday afternoon. The post
office-officials here have received no
information from him about the success
of his efforts.
e IA. Goodhart, of the Southern Photo
Material company. who was member
of the AID Mems committee that sent a
protest from the business houses to Mr..
Mckee. Monday morning discussed some
Of the bad effects of the curtailment OF
the delivery system in Atlanta. and add
ed a significant piece of information that
friend has brought back to him from
visit to several northern cities.
This business man asked about the
mail service In the various cities he Wis
tied. because he wished to compare con-
ditions there with those in Atlanta. He
found that in no Republican districts
has the mall service been curtailed, in
the least, but instead had been improved
and extended. while in the south
the postofice department had been
economical to the extent of seriously af-
fecting business and the general pub
lie.
He made the plain statement to Mr.
Goodhart that he thought the south and
other Democratic sections were having
to bear the whole burden of Postmaster
General Hitccocks retrenchment; while
in Republican districts the mail service
Mr.. Goodhart says that the Southern
Photo Material company, which does a
large mail order business. suffers from
the suspension by the postofflce of the
last afternoon delivery in Atlanta.
The Georgia train" he explained.
gets in here in the afternoon at 1905
o'clock, and the carriers now begin their
last delivery at 2 O'Clock. If the Geor-
gia train is late the mail that 1T brings
lies in the postoffice during the after
noon and night and is not delivered UNI
| til the next morning.
with our receipts greater than those
of Pittsburg and Baltimore, this cur
tilmest is un3ustffiable. It seems to me
| that we now have handsome postof-
flee builling and little in it. Over in
the old building enough clerks and car
riers were allowed by the department
to handle the mail properly and to make
suspensions of deliveries unnecessary.
IF economy is so absolutely necessary
| that we can't have new building with
out some of the deliveries being cut off.
1 think we ought to go back to the old
building. s.s
II have talked with several men VINO
are employed in the postorfice. and they
tell me that the present force is absc-
IuteIy Insufficient to handle the mail
OTTER mail for the east doesn't go out
on the midnight train because the clerks
aren't able to make 1t UP in time for
that train and 1t lies in the postoffice
until the next morning at IL O'Clock. !.
understand that letters for the east that
are mailed in the afternoon sometimes
remain in Atlanta until the mex. mora
ing.
During the last month we have been
Inconvenience by the delay of mail
Often we get letters four or five days
/ after they have been mailed and two or
three days later than they should have
been delivered"
No one at the postoffice denies that
more carriers and clerks are needed. In
the absence of the postmaster no state
ment has been given out. but 1t Is a
patent fact that the present force Is in
sufficient