Arizona republican., 1914-04-12
WHEN AND HOW OFTEN TO MAIL
Postmaster N McClintock Ladies Out Some Expert Advice on Times When It's Best to Bring ill Out going Mail Matter
(By J. H. McCintock, Postmaster Of
 Phoenix)

It would bc well if the business community of Phoenix understood the advantage of making more than one mailing q day. It is the local practice to gather up all the mail of the day at the conclusion of the days work and to deposit it by the armfuI at the p0stoffice, somewhere around or clock As result, about the entire postoffice force is engaged on the matter of outgoing mails at that time, for practically all the import ant mails close at the postoffice be- tween 4:30 and 6:15. Letters mailed late in the afternoon may lose the connections for northern Arizona and the fast train to Los Angeles. or even the santa Fe Parker line to the coast.
 This conGested condition seems not to be peculiar to the Phoenix office The postmaster general lately issued circular letter, instructing postmas- ters generally on number of points in this connection. The circular states:
 Many business men send their mail for the entire day to the post 1 office at one time in the evening, thereby causing congestion and con- sequent delay. The advantages of making deposits of their mail at least three times during the day should be explained fully, and in this connec- tion they should be invited to view with your operations in the division of mails during the evening rush hours"
 1 The postmasters also were instruct ed to inform their principal patrons that the dispatch of letters. cards and circulars when mailed in large quantities, will be greatly expedited 1 if such matter is faced and where i the quantity warrants, separated by states, before being deposited in the postoffice.'
 Reference also was made to the great and needless burden imposed upon the postal service in the hand ling of insuffciently and improperly addressed mail. and active co-opera- ton is asked of all patrons to in sure the placing of correct house and street addresses on all matter de posted in the mails This lack of
 proper street addresses is the princi- 1 pal handicap of postOffices in all new and growing towns In Phoenix, for instance, there arrive daily not less than three thousand letters addressed simply to Phoenix. Of course some of these addresses are known to tho
 clerks, but most of the letters must be sent to the directory clerks who
 diligently search all day to see
 whether the addresses have filed or
 ders for their mail In the absence
 of such orders to street number ol to box or to forward" such letters
 are placed in the general delivery to
 await call Every day about 200 let
 ters are returned to the writer. the
 addresses having failed to call; and
 at the end of the week about 2ot
 more, lacking q return card, are ad-
 vertised
 The postmaster at all times will
 be pleased to sec any patron of tho office who expects to mail large quantities of letters or packages and i to advise hlm concerning the peSl
 methods to be pursued.
 It should he understood that the
 one cent postage rate for local de- livery applies only to printed or cir
 cular matter It has happened during
 the past winter that a number o
 mailings of social invitations have haC
 to be returned to the writers owing
 to their lack of information on thi.
 point.