The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-08-19
ANOTHER STEP
FOR PROGRESS
Establishment of City Delivery
of Mail Marks Forward Move
ment of Vast Importance.
Six Carriers Needed

Although the matter of city delivery,
which is to start in tbs city on No
vember 1st, is in charge. of the First
Assistant Postmaster General, it is
largely due to the personal efforts of
Third Assistant Postmaster General
W. Irving Glover, who is a Jerseyman
and former Speaker of the House Of
Assembly, that Pleasantville is to
have this service at such an early
date, United States Senator Walter
L. Edge, a Pleasantville native, has
been keeping in close touch with the
matter for a long time and he has add
vised Postmaster Obert that Third As
sistant Glover has neglected no oppor-
tunity to put this matter through with
the utmost dispatch. \
Last Monday Mr.. Glover advised the
Senator that the Department had
granted city delivery to PleasantviIle
effective November list. Senator Edge
Immediately wrote a letter of con-
graduation to Postmastr Obert IN the
establishment of the city delivery.
Wednesday morning Postmaster Obert
received from the Post Office Depart
ment the advance instructions as to
the details to be worked Il for the
service. There are to be four regular
carriers put on November 1st, togetb-
er with two substitute carriers. For
the appointment of these carers there
will be a civil service examination
held at a date soon to be announced
by the Civil Service Commission.
This examination will be held at
the ~Pleasantville Post Office and
blanks for application can be procured
at the local office as soon as the date
of the examination is fixed.
At the present time there are eleven
mail boxes and standards erected in
the city to care for the village deliv-
cry system now in effect here. This
number will be increased by possibly
ten more letter boxes by November J..
There is one most important detail
that is not 10 be overlooked by the
people if they desire this city deliy-
cry to be put into effect here. That is
to provide some receptacle for mail
in front of their homes and business
places. This may either be a slot in
a door or a metal mail box. On this
question the postal regulations pro
vide as follows: "pnder no circum-
stances will mail be delivered to a
patron who fails to provide a reeepta-
Gle. Failure to comply with this re-
quirement will necessitate either post
ponement of establishment or com
plete withdrawal therefor As it is
only two and a half months before
free delivery is to come here it will
be necessary for the people 10 take
early action in the matter of providing
mail boxes for their homes and stores.
Another important matter is the
proper numbering of houses. When
Council recently passed an ordinance
governing house numbering many peo-
pie imagined the establishment of free
delivery was a thing that would hap
pen in the far distant future. Now it
is an assured fact, provided the house
numbering is given immediate atten~
ton. All who do not know their
proper house numbers can ascertain
the proper number by applying to the
Postmaster or City Clerk and giving
their city block and lot number.
AS the Postmaster must make a re-
port to the Post Office Department
fifteen days before the free delivery
becames effective it is essential TO
have the two details above mentioned
attended to so as to have the report
give the facts w~hich4are required to
put free delivery in effect at the time
designated, November LIST.