The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-30
kEN0sHA CARRIERS ARE BUSY
Mails for Distribution This Morning
Were AS Large as on Christmas Morn
ing and Other Mail is Expected for
Week YETI $4,000 Cards Held.

Uncle Sam has fallen down on the
| handling of the Christmas mails so if
you are short present from some
friend in Oskaloosa, Iowa, or Posey-
| vile, Indiana, don t get all peeved up
about it. Don't start in to roast the
mail carrier for a report has come to
Kenosha that tons of the Christmas
mail is being held up at distributing
centers all over the country and it is
going to come drifting into Kenosha
| just as fast as Uncle Sam gets mail
bags to handle it. Uncle Sam may be
studying preparedness, but he was not
prepared to handle the Christmas mail
and the call has been sent to all offices
in this district to send the empty mail
sacks back to Chicago with all the
speed possible in order to allow them
to be packed with offerings of Santa
Claus. Chicago was thousands of bags
short of enough to handle the mail and
it is piled up in the government ware
houses and at distributing centers
awaiting the coming of more mail bags.
The Kenosha office established rec
ord in handling the Christmas mail and
although every record of the Office was
broken in the quantity of the mail
handled all of the mail was dispatched
with the exception of the postal cards.
A lot of these got away, but the first
class mail was so heavy and the supply
of mail sacks so small that the post
cards were piled in great baskets and
they are now being worked out as
rapidly as possible. Fifty thousand
of them were in baskets at the post
office this morning, but they were NOV
ing at the. rate Of several thousand an
hour and it was expected that all Of
them would be ON their way before
the day is over.
Every one Of the letters and parcels
received at the Kenosha office on
Christmas morning was delivered, but
it was not trueao the post. cards. They
were laid to one side and they are 90
ing out on the carrier routes today.
The mail this morning which. had piled
up on Saturday and Sunday was
heavier than the mail on Christmas
morning and the carriers still used
wagons to deliver it.
"The Kenosha postofice never did
such business as it did in Christmas
week, = said Assistant Postmaster Zens
this morning. "Before the office clos
ed ON Friday the business for Deem
Der was more than $4,000 great
er than the business done in December
of last year and Friday night and Sat-
urday morning there was a. lot of bust
ness. Both the incoming and the out
going mails have been heavier than
ever before and the same is true all
over the country. We will be getting
Christmas mail for the next week or
ten days if the government can find
sacks enough to dispatch it from the
big distributing centers like Chicago
and Milwaukee. These places are sim
ply clogged with it and the people will
have to wait until the parcels can be
gotten out. The first class mail is be-
ing given preference, then the parcel
post mail and then the postcards.
Every Office in the district has thous-
ands of post cards waiting to be dis.
patched. We were forced to handle the
business of the week with six green
men on jobs as we put on three extrs
men and three of the regular force
were kept from work on account of i'll
ness. With such handicap the. boys
here did great work. IF the other
places gets. the mail into Kenosha we
will get it delivered in short order.
think that conditions here have been
better than at any point along the road
between Chicago and Milwaukee,