New Britain herald., 1921-12-12

l Christmas dinner also by mailing your letters and parcels early.
 w. r. DELANEY, Postmaster,
 Trail Packages A thing which many people seem to oyerool, is the fact that Trail package, while handled as carefully as possible, goes into g. mail sack which contains over packages and may have a 70 pound bundle dropped on top of it, Parcel post packages up to 5o pounds may be shipped any where in the United States and up to 7U pounds anywhere within 300 l6lles. | For each package costing 25 cents postage or over the government charges one cent revenue also. Pack ages should be done up in strong parcels and tied with strong twine.
 Money in the Bag
 Occasionally d mail clerk in empty ing q pouch of letters finds some loose change in the bottom of the pouch. Then every letter must be examined carefully to see who is foolish enough to put money in an envelope. some times the money is wrapped in paper, but usually it cuts through the en- velope. Therefore the department asks people not to send cash in a letter Money orders are cheap.
 Absent Minded People
 A great inconvenience the local post office has suffered is that of try ing to provide service for absent minded people, A person will write bunch of letters addressed to some body in New Britain. The word city" will be written in place of an address. Then the person takes q train or car in a hurry and drops | the letters in box where he or she happens to be when they think of it. They might be mailed in Hartford, Bristol or some other city and ofttimes get lost on this account
 Last Chance Mail
 Don't wait until Christmas to mail | anything" advises the postmaster. | Many people who had decided not to send a Christmas gift to a certain | person, find that the person suddenly | has remembered them and hustlcs out to buy last minute gift. There will be no possibility of mailing anything | this Christmas, as the present lnten- tion is to close the post office all day
 Those Cute Little Letters.
 If there is anything which agSra- yates a mail clerk worse than to find his wages reduced it is to have to l handle a bunch of those tiny, cute lit tie envelopes, which look so pretty in Miady's desk but are considered an | i, i,, ba 0fiiPra
 Cause of Lost Time
 In every postoffice there is a can ccling machine, which is adjusted to standard sized envelopes and has cancelling capacity of TOO letters a minute. If there is a small envelope | in the bunch, it becomes necessary | for the clerk to take it out and can eel it by hand, thus losing as much | time. to cancel one letter as 1t would | take the machine to cancel two or three thousand, Then the letter is rut in with another bunch and hand ed over to the carrier He puts strap or rubber band about the bun de to be delivered to a certain street and goes on his rounds. Maybe the letter stays in the bundle and maybe it doesn't. It. stands d chance of be- ing lost.
 What Can't Go
 In addition to transparent post cards with isin-glass on them, pack ages containing liquor, innamable and explosive articles and firearms are not acceptable.
 Ask Questions
 Realizing that there are many things about the law which the aver age person does not know, Mir. Della ney asks the people of this city not to be afraid to ask questions. That's what we are here for" he says.
 Larger Force of Trained Men
 The postoffice this year has larg CT force Of trained men than it ever had since the war broke out. During the war when many of the experience ed clerks went into the military sorv ice the office was in charge of good many inexperienced men, Now there is a large force and not a man in the office but has had at least years experience. There are nine subst- tute carriers in the city who will be put on duty during the holiday rush, but so far as present indicutoins are tOIlttl Itil IIp new llltIl VIII I'' put oll' Several extra trucks will be put on duty the last /week before Christmas. The numbey of trucks required will depend largely upon the weather conditions.
 Improvements
 Among the different items which will enter into improved service and convenience in handling the Christ mas rush of mail this year. not 6 small item will be the increased floor space, due to the recent installing of a mezzanine floor in the postoflice. Saturday Postmaster Dclaney and Foreman of Carriers J. F. Mcehan, made a trip about the city and found eight mail boxes, either worn out or broken by automobiles. These boxes will be replaced immediately and will be in service before the end of the week.
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