The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-11-06
SAYS LACK OF CO-OPERA-
TION DELAYS TRANSMITS
SION OF MANY LETTERS
Should Have Street
Number on Letters
Too Many Get Letters for the
Clerks to Become Familiar With
Them All-New Rules Regard
ing Parcel Post.

Patrons Of the Twin Falls postof-
flee are very careless about having
their mail addressed to their street
and residence number, post office box,
or business address," said Postmaster
M. A. Stronk yesterday owing to
the effect that there are several en-
ployes in the local postoffice who have
not been in the service a great while
and are not acquainted with the city
it is necessary to give a great many
Of these letters directory service This
means a lot of extra work in the Of
flee and a delay for the patron receiv-
ing the mail.
Business firms should invariably
have their box number or street adj
dress printed on their envelopes and
letter heads. Persons writing letters
and postal cards should always place
their complete return address on each
piece of matter mailed.
1T may be possible for postal
clerks to familiarize themselves with
the address of all patrons of an office
having only two or three hundred pa
irons but it is an impossibility in an
office having IS thousand.
Business firms and all other pa
irons are requested to post their mail
as early in the day as possible. A
great many firms hold all their mail
for posting until about $3.50 p. m. That
is the busiest time in the local office
and quite frequently it is not pos
sible to dispatch all the mail that the
senders expect to be dispatched on
the evening train. II every patron
will assist by posting his mail in
the day it will make the work much
lighter on the employees and enable
us to give better service to the public.
For the convenience of those send
ing packages, l wish that you would
give as much publicity as possible to
! the following notice from Postmaster
General A. S Burleson:
Section 456, Postal Laws and Reg
ulations is amended by the addition of
the following as paragraphs and s.
effective December l, 1917
"'7. Upon every parcel or package
transported from one point in the Uni
ted States to another by parcel post
on which the postage amounts to 20
cents or more, there shall be paid a
/ tax of one cent for each % cents or
fractional part thereof charged for
such transportation, to be paid by the
consignor No such parcel or pack
age shall be transported until a stamp
or stamps representing the tax due
shall have been affixed thereto. (Act
of October 3, 1917, Section S07, Para
graph 14).
as. The tax on fourth-class matter
referred to in the preceding para
graph is not applicable to parcels on
| which the postage amounts to less
| than 25 cents. On parcel subject to
% cents postage the tax is one cent ;
on parcels on which the postage is
from 25 to so cents, the tax is two
cents, and so on. Parcels shall not
be accepted for mailing unless both
the required postage and tax are full
ly prepaid. Special internal revenue
stamps shall be used to pay the tax
postage stamps are not valid for this
purpose. The failure of any post
master to observe the foregoing shall
be reported to the Third Assistant
Postmaster General, Division of Clas-
sification'
1.-THE internal revenue stamps az
fixed to parcels in payment of the tax
must be cancelled by the sender plac-
ing, or causing to be placed. thereon
his written or stamped initials to-
gether with the date upon which the
stamps are attached or used. In nc
case however, should the sender can
eel postage stamps affixed to par
GELS; such stamps must be cancelled
only by postage employees.
internal revenue stamps for use
in paying such tax will be supplie'
to postmasters in due course for sale
to the public
last year Postmaster Stronk, in al
interview in the TIMES urgently re
ouested the cooperation of the peo
pie in expediting the handling of theil
mail and renews the admonition as
he says many are getting careless
again.