The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-09-04
NO SUNDAY MAIL
NEW POSTAL LAW ORDERS OF.
HCE CLOSED SUNDAYS.

II This Law Affects Orangeburg
There VIII Be No Sunday Delivery
Hereafter.
The following letter has been sent
out to all first and second-class post
Offices:
Washington, Aug. -, 1872.
Postmaster.
sir:-The postoflce appropriation
act for the fiscal years ending June
80, 1913, provides:
s'That hereafter postotlices OF the
first and second classes shall NOT oe
open on Sundays for the purpose OF
deirerins mail to the general public,
but this provision shall no. reVen'
tha nrompt delivery mail"
Under this law, you will cose the
General delivery carriers windows
and lock boxes and discontinue all
deliveries by carriers on Sunday. You
will note, however, that special de-
livery mail is expected and you will
therefore arrange to have on duty a
sufficient force to handle this mail
matter promptly.
The department desires to reduce
Sunday work to the minimum so that
as many of the employees as possible
may enjoy a complete day Of rest on
Sunday. You should, therefore, re-
quire only sufficient number Of
clerks to report for duty on that day
in order that tansmit mail and the
mail collected for dispatch may be
handled without delay. II no mail is
dispatched on Sunday q very early
collection should be made on Monday
morning and the mail for local deliv-
cry distributed before the carriers
leave SoT their first trip,
Respectfully,
C. P. Grandfeld,
First Assistant Postmaster General,
The new law was passed by con-
gress and signed by the president be-
fore any intimation was heralded OF
It's creation. It was probably work
ed upon the quiet to keep down the
howl that would have been raised, es-
pecially by the larger cities. Aside
from being a blow to tho masses who
like to read and answer their letters
on Sunday, the greatest sufferers will
be those who are accustomed to read
the mammoth editions OF the Sunday
papers. 1t will be blow to the pub.
fishers who derive much business
from the Sunday editions.
In every other first and second class
postofhce city in the United States
might as well be saTcophagus on
Sunday hereafter, unless the mail you
are expecting happens to bear 10
cent special delivery stamp.
And II you received a single article
yesterday, letter, newspaper, or mer.
chandise that did not bear that STAMP
it was only because the local author
tiles had not received notification oi
law passed by Congress Saturday
night-a law which is probably the
most drastic and stringent Sunday
enactment that ever received the sig
nature Of the president Of the United
States.
L provides that from midnight Of
Saturday until midnight Of Sunday nc
article Of mail received at first OF
isecond class postofice shall oe work
ed'' even to the extent OF placing II
in a box, except it be Of the specia
delivery variety. In that case it will
be delivered as usual. The law is ef
fective at once
The new statute does not effect the
ldispatching of letters posted, which
| will be sent on the various trains al
usual.
Some curiosity was expressed here
| as to how such a law could have
passed through both Houses Of Con
gress and been signed by the presi
dent without publicity attaching te
the procedure. It was regarded a:
hardly conceivable that this could
have been accomplished without {
great protest, especially from the
large cities, il the intention had beer
known.
There are business men in this city
who have never dreamed of letting {
Sunday pass without procuring, open
ing and answering their mail. The
task of readjustment will be for these
an extremely difficult one.
Most inconvenience to the public
at large will result in connection with
the distribution of Sunday newspa
pers from out-of-town points. Lo'
cal newspapers are delivered by car
rier, bat in the towns which do moi
have Sunday newspapers one of the
leading events Of day Is the arriva.
OF the big town daily. The situation
now created is one thug Will doubt
less receive different solutions. In
not many cases will the people fore
go the pleasure of enlivening thei,
only day of If there is any possible
means by which the paper can be Sc
cured.
Inconvenience will also be caused
those connected with the publication
of Monday morning papers since
newsletters arriving on Sunday will
be non-deliyery unless bearing spe-
ciai delivery stamps.
About a year ago an agitation was
launched in some quarters for par
tial Sunday closing, and this went
into effect here. The scope Of this
was the aSolition Of delivery at car
riers' windows and the restriction OF
the general delivery window to 80
minutes time.
The only object that will be sub
served by the new law, so far as is
apprehended, is q modest saving to
the public treasury. The statute pro-
vides that where an employee is re-
qrired to work on Sunday he must be
given a holiday at some other time
Of the week within six days. An en-
ployee cannot be worked over eight
hours a day and all this period must
be included within 10 hours.
SHOOTS BIS BROTHER-N-LAW.