Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-12-24
FAILURE OF THE PARCELS POST.
GENERAL BURLESoN is grow
these days with his hurrah over the parcels p

POSTMASTER GENERAL BURLESoN is growing quite chesty
these DAVIS with his the parcels service which
he codds as dong father would only child 7 me
experience smaller offices to be taken as criterion the
manipulation branch of the postofce amentabe aure
Clerks are overwolked additional burden Of the holiday
traffic has been thrown without regard for their hours or
compensation That there is prospect Of additional pay Tor
overtime goes saying for the and boastn post
master general falls back the statement that the law provides
that clerks SHALL NOT work longer than eight hours daily
they foolish exceed this limit then II IS matter
between themselves their onscences and it surprising ha
the clerks who give the government should not
be fined for an nfrartion of the posoiice regulations
Take the Tonopah for instance Thousands of packages
would of the mails week were It not Tor the
courtesy Of the girl clerks who cherfuy of their own time
that the man Of the department might increase ms chest
inches To their loyalty the people OF Ionopah
are for the comparatively quick dispatch Their mas nave
The general not entitled to single WORD Of
praise
In every line of commercial customary increase forces
at the holiday season with the postohce In spite OF the
fact that the service has been more the matter of
manual labor nothing done mitigate the lot Of the clerks
who that several degrees lower than the ordinary
accepted Of the camp Instead of multiplying help the depart
has kmped along by throwing itself on the mercy oil e poor
employees This way the department has shown its enterprise
capacity for coping with the situation this section OF the
world.
On the outside the metropolitan papers flourish the post
office has activity such has been
before More clerks carriers additional help al
the railroad improvements at all points where thu
service fong This is merely grandstand play for tn
sake Of advertising administration As matter of fact very
little preparation for the holiday rush At the eleventh
rusty machinery Of red put in motion and dis
play energy manifested in the big cities But the department s
clng to and refran from using locked chest
similar the express companies have used for years In
result packages ayed and with battered edge
and contents prordng The who paizes the parcels
does and necessarily he must be Of tn
masses few consideration Instead Of proectm
him and his merchandise postoce has catered to the pubct
department expensive to be used the mail service
This keeps the Of maintenance The public suffers
But to return Tonopah Here office where the cost
administering is be made consistent with
for service carriers the cost OF dstrb
ton Every person has the posofce to get his gifts
then boy carry the bundle home In this Joyo,
season pride becoming beasts Of burden it tel
our neghbors been forgotten But that anoth
story.
To cheaper of the service citizen wanting buy tw
cent stamp his position line Of thirty forty
hour before he that little scker for
letter probably the mail If he sending package
wants insured patiently until he reaches the wickf
blank fill This neeestates falling out OF t
line taking position and ad nnitum and ad ma
pair of scales is furnished An pair placed outsi
the help the ovrwored clerks but that could not
For the sake of red tape the department would