Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-25
CHRISTMAS REAL
WORKDAY At THE
POSTOFF|CE
Mail Clerks and Carriers See
Little of Santa Claus in the
Final Grand Rush.

Two hundred mail clerks and carrtara
dreamed of full stockings last night the,
said at the pcstoffice this morning p,,+
the stockings were packed with eoN 0oo
letters and packa ges, and the dream was
reminder that the job of distributtng
the mail OF Christmas-which is sor,e
mall-must be accomplished, holiday or
no.
50 ii wasn't Santa Claus at all that
came to them last night but bad dream,
Santa Claus and the spirit of Christmas
lodged the postal workers They awoLa
to realization of the quarter of a mil
lion letters and cards and bundles tn bo
delivered, SO they arose and proceeded
to get on their jobs 1t may be that thew
didn't like it-but they're lust pubIic
servants.
There was an early morning mail do.
livery today when the carriers and tboir
helpers, laden with a load like that of ol6
Atlas. staggered about in an effort to
distribute the mail that came for atlanta
folks last night
Extra Men Hardest Hit
The bunch at the postoffice who prob.
aoly least liked the workaday Christmas
were those who had signed up, in a semi
pHhd way as extra clerks, to help out
IN the holiday rush. ana to make a lit
Tie pm money, or holiday spending fund
TO work on Christmas, the one holiday
of the year for 80 cents an hour. to know
chat there is no reward for your industry
but the 80 cents. that your Job ends
Christmas night or the next day-how
would YOU like to be a holiday clerk?
over their heads they realized the of-
fees were quiet, and nobody was working
except an isolated person here and there
who came down to pen a few lines. or
10 eaten up with the records or to Dre-
slqe over the court dockets for a little
while ''
Outside. they knew the streets were
stlll with the holiday .dullness. And aftel
the little space during which the win
dows We're open for holiday delivery, the
postOffice itself was quiet But il was
Christmas, and the mail clerks had Ia
work. Officially, the crime of DELAYING
the delivery of that card from IIeo6uk is
as neinous as malfeasance in office, what
ever that constitutes.
No Cinch Running Postoffoe.
postmaster Mckee and his executive
force were on the job during the time
windows We're open to the public, Run
nlng a, postotfice, Mr.. Mckee has founc
out THIS week, is a job that requires the
eom9lned ,alenCs Of a floor walker a
baseball umpire and a Scotland YARD de
lectlve, with the patience Of Job and lie
temperament of the meekest archange
thrown in.
It may be that he has found out
TACT which is true. that the distribution
Of the mail is a thing about which the
general public knows less, ana about
tangle in which they kick the hardest
a man s house is his castle; his mail is
more, being his personal honor, his fam
lily Skeleton, his belief in the past and his
hope for the future. Which every post
office official knows, and will tell you
upon inquiry, the knowledge having been
Cleaned by them from the school of ex-
perlence
The branch stations had no such siren.
uous day as did the main office Only
one delivery was made in the residential
section, although the carriers downtown
went about twice among the office build
ings and stores.