The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-24
Important Sunday Change
Will Improve Local
Service
SUGGESTION MADE
TO HEAVY PATRONS
Three Trains Leaving About 6 p. m.
Weekdays Make it Essential that
Bulk Of Mail Be Deposited Earlier
Than Usual

Changes in the working schedule at
the postoffice have been made to cor
respond with the new train service, one
of the principal changes being in the
time of collecting and despatching the
Sunday mail, which will go into effect
next Sunday.
Collections Sunday afternoon will be
made two hours earlier than heretofore.
which will bring the mail into the Of
fee so that il can be despatched on the
southbound train at 6.09 p. m, former
" the 4.32 train The hours for the
collections have been noted on the va
rious street letter boxes this week
Heretofore the Sunday morning mail
has closed at the postoffiee at 10 clock
and has been taken to the station,
where it has remained until the north
bound train at 2.l4 P. m, which train
| has now been taken off No further
| mail was despatched until 9 m, which
was too late for the SIG train south
bound, now discontinued, but was taken
| north on the late train.
| ing mail viii close at the postoffice in
| time to be taken north on the newSpa-
per train early in the forenoon. All
mail deposited in the office or brought
in by the carriers between then and
$50 =. m. will be sent out ON the 500,
several hours earlier than before. I'm
der this arrangement the clerk who has
been remaining at the offie until 9
| n Snn1u--c will ,vnrE of+ar
deSpatching the afternoon mail. Mail
that has been coming in between and
9 D. m and las been going out on the
late train at night will not be handled
Sunday nights hereafter, but the
amount of such mail is very small and
if it is mailed at the railroad station
or left at the Brooks House it will 90
out the same as formerly On the whole
the new plan is an Improvement
Postmaster NJ. J. Moran calls atten-
tion to the fact that with both north
bound and southbound train on the
main line and northbound train on
the West River line all leaving at about
6 =. IN. on weekdays, under the new
schedule, it is necessary to close pouch
es for all of those trans at $50 p. IN.
which involves vast amount Of work
at the Office just previous to that time
If the large depositors of mail wait
Just before closing time to take their
mail TO the postofiicc, manifestly it will
be impossible to handle il all in time
for those trains. For their own bene-
fit Postmaster Moran suggests that
/ patrons deposit as much as possible of
their mail as early as possible.
The mail service by team in the West
, River valley is giving the satisfaction
that wac expected of it. The team Is
held here each weekday morning for
the newspaper train from the south and
I returns in time to connect with the
7 609 train southbound. This service in
e wolves much more work at the postof.
fee "a a pouch is made up for each
4 town, whereas when the railroad is open
:, it is taken TO the train without being
sorted and is sorted by the railway mail
clerk. This service also involves addi
tional work at the other postoflces
along the route.
1 The West River road is now open tc
point north of Townshend, and the
f northern Terminus may be reached .this
! | week.