Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-09-06
GIVES DETAILS
SUNDAY CLOSING
OF POSTOFFICE
POSTMASTER GENERAL EXPLAINS
WORKINGS OF NEWLY ADOPT
ED LEGISLATION

Complete details OF the new Sun
day closing law. relative to the hand
ling of mail by first and second class
statement made by Postmaster Gen
eral Hitchcock. According to the
original order as received by Post
master Stewart, 1t was stated that
no mail would be handled but sub
sequent order modified the regula.
lions so as to permit the handling
of mail for newspaper offices and
hotels. The statement by Postmas-
ter General Hitchcock follows:
There appears to be some mis-
apprehension as regards the pro
vision in the postal bill relating to
the delivery of mail on Sundays.
This provision does not require the
closing OF postoffices on Sundays,
which would be quite impossible. ow-
| ing to the fact that the transit mail
has to be sorted and also the mail
collected in cities for dispatch to
other destinations. To stop the
movement of this mail would mean
a serious clogging of the whole sys-
TEN Of mail transportation and con-
sequent inconvenience to the pub
lie.
Eat present most of the mail re-
ceived on Sunday for delivery by car
rier Monday morning is worked after
midnight on Sunday and therefore
the law will not affect this mail. It
will be delivered as promptly as hith-
erto. Mail received up to midnight
on Saturday for lock boxes will be
distributed to the boxes and will
be available to box holders on Sun
day as usual.
"There is at present no street de-
livery OF mail by letter carriers on
Sundays and therefore the law makes
no CudiBtb III tllio itbuiu' III ohoi "
the only mail that will be affected
: under a reasonable construction OF
the new law is that received at the
postoffices on Sunday and hitherto
sorted on that day for distribution
to lock boxes.
"As the purpose Of the law, which
was clearly enacted in the interes
of employees, is to reduce as far al
practicable the amount of Sunda.
labor, the work of distributing Sun
day mail to lock boxes will be lin
tied to certain classes of mail tina
cannot be held until Monday morn
ing without serious inconvenience +
the addresses This mail will il
I clude that for newspapers and hott
I guests. The latter is peculiarly tran
I silent in character and should not b
I delayed. This mail, like the specit
>Idelivery mail, will be sorted out {
! the offices of dispatch and on tn
( railway mail trains in order to sir
>Eplify the work of distributing it
the postoffices on Sundays. Und'
the new method its distribution
$lthe boxes on Sunday will be haste
ed rather than delayed
"As practically all business hous
are now closed on Sunday they
not object to the plan, which h
been in force for year. of holdil
- their mail until Monday mornin
realizing the benefit thus conferr
on postal employees who are there
relieved from Sunday labor
4 In order to give the new provisi
Il as liberal a construction as possit
ID postmasters will be instructed on q
plication TO have their employees 8,
i out In emergency cases on Sund
letters OF special importance. n
will supplement- the present priylle
n OF having all mail delivered on 81
day that carries a special deliye
stamp.
a. "ny the proposed changes In
a In. !