The Washington times., 1911-07-01
POSTAL EMPLOYEES
TO Be ADVANCED
GRADE IN SERVICE
Promotion for Several Hun
dred Clerks and Car
riers Here.
INCREASE IN FORCE
BY NEXT SEPTEMBER
Benefits of Act Providing for Com
pensatory Time Off Goes Into
Effect Today.

Several hundred clerks and carriers ir
the Washington City Postoffice are to
be promoted. With the beginning Of the
new fiscal year today all of those who
have served efficiently and satisfactorily
will be advanced one grade, with a cor
responding increase in salary. These
salary increases vary with the various
grades from 500 to 500 a year.
In addition to the promotions, there
will be several new appointments an
nounced. The entire list of changes will
not be made public for a week or two
at least, until they are approved by the
Postoffice Department.
There will be no marked increase OF
the working force of the City Postoftice
for several months at least. Today be-
gins the lightest season of the year for
mail handling, as the population of the
city is always depleted in the summer
months. A general increase in the
working force is expected in September
or October. This is more or less of an
annual event, due TO the regular per
centage of growth of the Washington
office.
Compensatory Time Off.
Beginning today, clerks and carriers
in the Washington office will also re-
ceive the benefits OF the recent act of
Congress, providing for compensatory
time off for work done on Sundays and
holidays. They will get the benefit OF
this compensatory time the whole year.
except when special exigencies of the
service demand that they work more
than forty-eight hours a week. This
new law applies to all first and second
class offices in the United States, in
every city of 10000 or more Inh abitants,
1t was passed upon the recommendation
of Postmaster General Hitchcock.
Several vacancies in the service were
created by designations made effective
today. Miss Minnie Q. Sanders, for six
years receiving clerk at the registry
window Of the local office, applied for
transfer to the office at FL Paso, Tex.
She will leave the city today. o. A.
Wise, resigned as clerk N the office
of the chief postofflce inspector, to ac-
cept a position in the office OF the sec
Iretary of state of Missouri.
Inspectors Reclassifed.
There was a general re-classifcation
of all postofice inspectors today, and
they will all be put under the chief in
Bpector. Previously, there were inspec-
tors for each division of the service, re-
sponsible TO the chiefs of division. The
per diem expense money allowed the
inspectors is cut from 81 to 50 a day,
but with the advent of the new fiscal
year, they receive an increase in sal
airy.
Commencing today, owners of lost
registered mail of the third and fourth
classes will be Unidentified to the extent
of SIS. Heretofore, no indemnity was
paid for lost registered mail except OF
the first and second classes.
Two other new provisions of postal
law Of great interest are effective today
One of these is of especial significance
to the police and Secret Service; 1t ex-
tends the meaning of the word indie
cent" as applied to mail matter, to in
clude matter of a character to incite
murder, arson, or assassination. The
other will aid the public at Christmas
time. 1t provides that the phrase Not
to be opened until Christmas" may be
written on third and fourth class mat
ter, without confiding it to a resting
place in the dead letter office.
An appropriation Of s256,547,09O is avail
able today for the coming years work
of the Postoffice Department