The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-06-07
WHAT THE POST
OFFICE DEPART.
MENT IS DOING
POSTMASTER BURLESON GIVES
OUT STATEMENT REGARD.
ING SAME.
1000 New Clerks Have Been Added
to Service During the Past
Ninety Days.
(By Associated Press.)

Washington, June 7.-Postmaster
General Burleson yesterday gave out
statement summarizing various
measures adopted or contemplated in
the administration OF the postal SER
vice. The statement says in part:
During the ninety days Of the
new administration about 1000 ad-
d:tional clerks and approximately
500 additional city letter carriers
have been attached to the various
postollices throughout the country,
and besides the1o additions to the
regular force approximately $1,000
coo has been authorized for tempo
rary clerk hire, and about 100000
for temporary city letter carriers.
These unusual financial demands
made it necessary for the postmaster
general to go TO Congress in May for
IN emergency appropriation OF $780,
900, which was promptly granted,
and 100000 allotted for temporar..
clerk hire and like amount for tenn
lcrary carriers.
"On March 5, 1913, there were
about 1900 vacant postmasterships
of the presidential grade, and some
500 have become vacant since. or
these more than 1900 cases have
oeen brielcd and about 1900 nomi-
rated to the Senate.
,.Of the fourth-c'ass postmastership3
which were found vacant on March,
including those which have become
vacant since, amounting to about
4,5OO, more than 100 have been
biled as the result Of civil service
examinations or inspectors reports,
leaving at the present time about
1000 of the presidential grade and
some 2,SOO Of tho fourth class to be
disposed of. These are being dealt
with expeditiously.,
within the last sixty days 488
petitions for rural delivery routes
have been disposed Of, resulting IN
the establishment of 203 routes. in
volving an annual expenditure for
maintenance of approximately $780,
900. By the establishment Of these
new routes and the extension OF oil
.outcs more than 100000 people are
Aow receiving their mail at their
.oors, instead of at remote postof-
ices
''ln pursuance of the policy of ex-
.,eGiting the delivery OF mail, the
postmaster general has ordered the
scontinuaAce Of the backstamping
III ordinary mail which hereto
lore has delayed it's delivery any
nc i4om twenty minutes to one
ilf hour.
The condition IN the railway mail
III. vice Was found to be most urgent
here through mistaken ideas OF
economy the clerical force had been |
% reduced as to effect efficient sery-
- and car space cut down to dan
er point With the advent OF the
.artel post system on Jan. l, which
Increased tremendously the volume
oi business handled, additional clerks
.,G incl eased car space were most
im perative. But nothing was done
to relieve this, it being left to the
new administration to restore the
ofiiciency of this important branch OF
the service Nine hundred and ten
additional clerks have been added to
The service since March 4, and in
c, ceased car space costing $4,000 a
year has been provided. Already q
marked improvement is noted in this
service.
"The parcel post regulations have
been modified 20 as to permit the de-
livery to the addressee, without adj
ditional charge, of matter reaching
The office of address with improper
llamps alike |
BY an arrangement made with |
he Canadian postal service the rates
Of postage on Sunday editions of
5aily newspapers mailed to subscrib-
FRS in Canada, who also are subscrib-
srs to the weekday editions. hasl
teen fixed at one cent pound or
traction thereof instead Of at one
cent for four ounces or fraction, as
In conclusion the statement says:
at Is Postmaster General Burle-