Phillips County herald., 1921-12-23
McUe to Discontinue
Tolun Mail DeliUery


congress. the postmaster general rec
ommends the discontinuance OF the
appropriation for village mail deliy-
cry. Should this recommendation be
acted upon favorably by congress, 1t
will mean that Holyoke, with hun
dreds of other towns entitled to free
mail delivery, will be deprived of
that convenience. t
To get free mail delivery town
Office must do $4,000 In business q
year. Holyoke secured the service
because of the volume of business
done. and is just as entitled to its
continuance as any city many times.
its size. - 80 Aos;q
Postmaster White has received q
letter from Congressman w. ". Griest
of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. who has
interested himself in behalf of towns
which would be affected by favorable
action on the pcstmaster-generafs
recommendation. Mr.. Griest asks II
the free mail service here is import
ant. satisfactory and beneficial. and
II commercial and other local civic
bodies will file protests against the
discontinuance OF the service.
Postmaster White has written Con-
gresham Griest that the free mail
delivery here is not only important.
satisfactory and beneficial. hut that
its abolishment would cost the gov
ernment much more than its contin.
uance. Following is Mr.. Whites let
ter:
Acknowledging receipt OF your let
ter dated December 14th. relative to
village delivery service. will say for
your Information tina. the service. al.
though established here less than q
year ago. has met with entire salts
faction and is hi9hly approved by an
the patrons Of this village. II is my
personal opinion that discontinuance
Of the same will be strongly opposed
by our different civic organizations
through our representative from this
district.
II consider the village delivery Of
great beneht to this place at this
time. for the reason that our quarters
are entirely inadequate for the
amount Of business we do at this
office. The delivery service takes the
mail Immediately from the Office after
each mail twice day. thus 1t does
not accumulate and lay around in the
way for from two to three days after
arrival. Our floor space is only 300
square feet. when Il should be for
convenience at least 24OO square feet
This 900 square feet has to provide
space for two rural routes. four star
routes, as well as for myself. two
regular clerks and one substitute
clerk part time.
"The department now pays $4s0
rent per snnum for the buildinG
which the ONCE now occupies. inciud.
Ing light. water and heat, while
building with proper space would
cost them approximately $500 per
annum and should be 2i00 square
feet. in order to give us more space
for mail box equipment. as before
our delivery was established I always
had long waiting list for postoffice
boxes. As we have no more room for
cnuinment shoull thp deliyery ser.
vice be discontinued. II would be me-
cessary to enlarge our floor space In
order to take care OF the patronage
OF this Office"
Postmaster White has also written
Congressman Charles Il. Timberlake.
for many years n resident here, and
knows that Holyoke Is In need Of the
service. Mr.. Undertakes old friends
hero know he will do NIL he can TO
MD his former home town. Tho
Civic association and Commercial
club and the town council will take
nctiyc opposition to the postmaster
generals recommendation.
Get busy. Write n letter TO Con.
grcsnman Timbcrlakc urging him 10
do what he can against the request
Of Mr.. Hays. To abolish. free mail
delivery here would give Holyoke n
backset. Let's push right ahead. We
have tn, hest town OF It's size In
northeastern Colorado. and let US