The Washington herald., 1915-02-14
PRAEGER TURNS DOWN
MERCHANTS REQUEST
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MENNIlHINlD NEOOES /
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no reason why a business man wanting
to buy stamps should have to sweat and
swear while a cashier In a drug store is
selling soda checks. cigars and chewing
gum
Wait of Twenty Minutes.
Business is business. and you can't
make business wait. Our time is valu-
aole' and we can't await the pleasure of
druggist when We want to do business.
Mr.. Praeger states there are five 'au-
thorized clerks in the store at Ninth
street and Pennsylvania avenue. the
nearest place I can purchase stamps. I
so there frequently. and there is only
one clerk who sells stamps so far as ]
can see. and I have pretty good e"es.
Mr.. Praeger says he will deliver - 10
stamps. II we happen TO want only nifty
we must put up with drug store service.
l.. Jacobs, tailor. a member OF the COM
mittee. said:
| Mr.. Praeger's letter is most disap-
Pointing. II he thinks he is giving us
good service he should have been with
my clerk yesterday when the clerk had
to wait twenty minutes 10 get a 9O-cent
money order at the Office at Eighth and
F streets. In the drug stores where girl
cashiers sen stamps you can't get a
stamp before o'clock in the morning or
after at night, because the girls work
under the eight-hour law"
HamperinE City's Business.
Karl Brodt. halter, also a member of
the committee. said:
1T is discouraging that Washington's
business should be hampered because the
= f~Ni y
penses in the Postofice Department
Business men have to go so far now for
stamps and get such unsatisfactory serv-
ice that in the last few days a number in
this section have tried to buy stamps in
the Raleigh Hotel and in Woodward &,
Lothrops department store. The Army
and Navy Publishing Company has had
TO hire extra boys to get stamps and at
tend to other mail matters since the old
station was removed to the main station
over on North Capitol street"
Lem Powers. manager of the James
Y. Davis Company. said:
The reasons for establishing the Of
nce We ask for are much more nu-
merous than Mr.. Praeger has cited in
seeking to show why we should not
have the office. We believe Mr.
Praeger is with us in this fight. but
is hampered by the PostofHce Depart
ment."
Letter of Postmaster.
Postmaster Praeger's letter TO Chair
man GrOsner:
referring to the recent visit of
yourself, and the committee Of which |
you are chairman, on which occasion |
you presented certain resolutions !
adopted at a meeting OF citizens. and |
subsequently lndorsed by mary citizens. |
beg to advise that | have delayed |
answering your committee pending fur |
ther inquiry into and consideration OF !
the subject. |
The question presented in your petit
tion goes to the very heart OF what con-
stitutes the mission of a pOstoffice The /
policy Of the postoffice should be to serve
the largest number OF citi-
zens. and not primarily to stimulate or
promote business interests in given
locality by forcing patrons of pOstoftice
to a given point. However. such a mo-
tive does not enter into the request you
gentlemen have made in regard to Penn
sylvania avenue. for your committee has
been positive in its assurance to this
effect. The situatio thus resolves itself
into this one question:
Are the postal facilities in the Penn
Sylvania avenue territory adequate?
THE following are the postal facilities
now furnished to B street. Pennsylvania
avenue. F street. and the intervening
between Sixth and Fiji
.eenth streets northwest. which is the
lrea in which your petitioners either do
business orereside:
Postal Service FurnIshed.
You have seven deliveries Of mail
iaiy. beginning at o'clock in the morn
ng in the market and commission house =
district and ending at midnight for the :
/
,apcr activities In addition to these =
even carrier deliveries. YOU have three I
,arce post deliveries q realize that you
'Xpress no request in regard to the de- 2
livery service. but l have mentioned it y
because this service has an important Y
,earnE on your request for lock-box ana e
general delivery a
You have eighteen regular mail collec- D
ions daily-a collection every eighty min v
ties. from a. m. to II a. m. and from Z
. m. to II p. m. and collection every e
orty minutes from II a. m. to p. m. c
n addition to these eighteen collections, p
here are six parcel post collections by Il
wagons and two additional collections Of @
lail by automobiles direct from office Il
uildingS and other large mailing points
IN Sundays there are two collections of
nail. In this district there also are col
ections every half-hour of your special Il
elVery letters from three OF your lead n
lC postal stations. IL
How adequate are the facilities for B
he purchase of stamps, the issuing and N
aging OF money orders. the registering
mail and for handling parcel post is pi
hown at glance by the following table al
{ the classified and contract parcel sta kl
ons located within the territory outlined ei
your resolution: T.
Authorized Daily STAMPED
alton. Location. clerks. paper stock. ! ~
G sth and sts............ Sl 800 M
Is 18Th s.. and "a AZ. 10 tr