The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-09-06

Mail received after midnight Saturday
will not be distributed in the boxes.
The New York World has the fol-
lowing to say regarding the matter:
The Sunday Postoffice Hold-up.
By a provision which crept unnotic-
ed into the Post Office Appropriation
BILL postofiices in the larger cities are
to be reduced on Sunday to the vac
uity of offices in country hamlets,
Mails arriving on that day will re-
main undistributed and beyond reach
even of the holders OF lock boxes,
Business men at hotels. people in the
towns expecting important communi-
cations or desiring to send them out
will wait or desire in vain Only let
tiers with special-deivery stamps will
be able to obtain any local motion on
that day.
Whose is the hand or what the in
terest that wrote this provision into
the bill? How long must the country
endure a policy in directing the postal
service whose end is evidently to make
it as inefficient and troublesome and
useless to the people as possible?
The circular follows:
From numerous communications re-
ceived at the department there ap-
pears to be some misrepresentation
among postmasters as regards the
provision in the Post Office Appropri-
alton Act for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1913. relating to the delivery
of mail on Sunday at first and second
class post Offices concerning which
certain instructions were issued by
circular letter dated the oath instant
This provision as construed by the
Postmaster General does not require
| that the Hobbies of such offices be
| closed on Sundays but simply that the
| delivery of mail to the general public,
through the general delivery, carrier
| windows, and boxes be discontinued.
Mail received in time for distribution
into such boxes before midnight on
| Saturday should be distributed to the
boxes and be available to lock-box
holders on Sunday, as usual.
The only mail that will be affected
under the Postmastr Generals con-
struction of the new law is that re-
.ceived at the post Office on Sunday
which was hitherto been distributed
to lock boxes, and of this mail that
intended for newspapers and for hotel
guests, and also newspapers addressed
to news-dealers, should be distributed
to the boxes as hitherto.
In order to give the provision as
liberal construction as possible the
Postmaster General wishes postmast-
ers on application to have their EN-
ployees sort out in emergency cases
on Sunday letters of special import
ance when the Office of origin i:
known. This will supplement the pre-
sent privilege of have sueh mail deliv
cred on Sunday by purchasing ;
special delivery stamp therefore.
The purpose of the new law is t.
reduce as far as practicable the amour
of Sunday labor in post officess How
| ever, the movement of transit mai
and the distribution of mail collected
, in cities for dispatch to other destina
tons must be continued, and in orde
, that the early devilery on Monda
, may not be delayed mail reviewed o.
, Sunday for delivery by carrier O
Monday morning, as far as practicabl
| should be worked after midnight o
Sunday. Clerks when making up d
rect packages that will reach first an
| second class post Offices on Sunda
{ should place letters addressed to new.
papers and hotels on top of the pack
| age Immediately under the special de
> livery matter, should there be any, an
4 daily papers published on Sunda
should be kept separate and distin(
q from other matter and dispatched
n sacks so labeled as to show their cor
y, tents.
o 1t is believed that if suggestion
. herein are carefully observed wit
e reference to putting up mail in tt
4 Office of origin satisfactory distr
- button can be made in post Offices c
" Sunday with even less work than
~ now required and without inconvel
g fence to the public.
u Respectfully,
- E. T. BUSHNELL,
=, Acting First Assistant Postmast
6. General.