The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-02-04

the carrier IN conversation that de-
lays him one minute, probably cause
the loss of many patrons farther on
who are wanting to see him and must
await his arrival. The person who
watches out of the window for the
carrier and then runs out and calls
to him when he is starting on, adds
to trouble and delay not only to the
carrier, but to the rest Of the public
on the line. These delays by many
careless or thoughtless patrons along
the route amount to a great deal in
day and accumulate so much un-
certainty for those on the end Of the
line that the service becomes an IT.
ritation and a disappointment rather
than q help. The carrier gets
blamed for this when the patrons
themselves are responsible. The way
to have a good service Is for all the
people along the route to work &C.
cording to the above instructions;
then II the service is not good it may
he due to the carrier or 1t may be
due to the inefficient service of rout-
ing clerks in the post office from
which the routes run. For instance,
If you have guest at your home and
she is expecting important mail and
you place a written order with the
post office to send hcr mail ont On
your route In your care, and the i'm
portant piece of mail arrives at the
office and the clerk whose duty 1t il
to review the written orders often
enough to keep all such mail cor
rectly routed, should be asleep on
his job or should spend his spare mo-
ments looking thru the morning
papers instead Of pouring over these
orders and letters to get every pos
sible delivery, then the rural carrier
may get all Of your scolding for. not
bringing that letter out to your guest
and yet the carrier is not at fault.
The postal service consists Of doing
about q million things and then do
ing them over once more with varia-
lions just as soon as possible, and
80 on until death OF. dismissal doth
part the slave from the service. and
the patron who scolds the carrier or
postal clerk may be .scolding the
wrong one when quite sure Of his
man. Statistics show that most of
the mistakes and blunders COM
planned Of by the public are due to
the mistakes or Oversights Of the
public rather than those Of the postal
slaves. ii HE.
3S The Government Pays
The government pays $1440 q
year for carrying the mail on q
mile route. and about
$3.50 for q fifty mile route. II they
would pay about $4,000 and increase
the length of the route to whatever
D man could serve we'll with an auto,
the carrier could probably keep up
his equipment and render service
that would be far better than what
We are receiving In this county from
vehicles. A route of
miles at $4,000 a year would
cost about the same per mile as the
fifty mile route at the present salary.
In order to make such service q
the people along the route
would need to place all boxes on one
tide Of the road and grade level 30
The car could stop and start to good
advantage. They would need to give
heed to all the things enumerated In
his article, and then the mail car
could travel just about on schedule,
md 60 thru every lane instead Of
yoing on big circuit Of the princi-
pal roads.
Aberdeen has had some experience
.rying to get Q, carrier on an auto
quite. They advertised four times
or persons to take the examination
md three times nobody applied. The
ourth time they had one applicant.
A good many people in the county
ire mapping out new routes now
IN the plans outlined here. We may
ret the revisions right away, or 1t
nay take q good while, but 1t IL
worth while to be trying, and It Ia
worth while to be getting the mail
,oxes properly placed. In those To-
;alities where there are rocks IN the
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