Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-04-27
POSTAL EMPLOYEES
BEGIN CAMPAIGN
ASK CITIZENS TO ASSIST IN
MOVE TO IMPROVE
SERVICE

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The Welfare council of the Wausau
Organization OF Postal Employees has
inaugurated a campaign to obtain
more complete cooperation from bus
mess men and the public generally in
mailing letters and parcels early in
the day SO as to avoid the tremendous
rush with which employees Of the local
office are confronted practically every
day.
Thomas Fl. Ryan. postmaster, has
mailed out the following letter tell
ing of the postal employees effort to
improve the service:
The local Welfare Council of POST
al Employees has inaugurated Mail
Early campaign in line with one OF
the principal objects OF that associ-
alton, to improve the service being
given to postal patrons.
Il wish to call your attention to the
great assistance that patrons can give
toward improving the local service by
depositing mail early and frequent
ly during the day and not holding
same until the close of business. In
rush periods clerks are obliged to
speed up, and speeding up means
some errors in reading addresses and
even in throwing mail where address
es are plain. The train schedules in
Wausau are SO arranged that we have
two especially heavy s'top loads each
day, one in the morning and one in
the evening. Under the eight hour in
ten law the eight hours of service
which each employe performs must
be given during some ten consecutive
hours of the day. For example. a
clerk on duty at $50 a. M must COM
plete his. days work by 1880 D. M.
while clerk on duty until eight at
night cannot be started until ten
in the morning AS our peak loads"
come roughly, at from six to eight
in the morning when most of the in-
coming mail is distributed, and from
five to seven at night when the great
est bulk of outgoing mail IS dispatched.
the same crew OF clerks can not be
used during both of these rush peri
DDS. As result enough clerks must
be employed to take care of each of
these rush periods. AS each clerk
works eight hours, there is an over
tapping in the middle of the day, and
during the time when the work of the
office is lightest, more clerks are on
duty than during the rush hours.
AN actual court from February 9th
to 18th. inclusive. shows that during
the eight hours from eight o'clock in
the morning until four in the after
noon, 22.613 letters were run through
the cancelling machine, while during
the hours from four to seven in the
Afternoon, 31,759 We're cancelled, and
during the two hours from five to Sew
en-, more letters were cancelled than
during the entire eight hours men
toned. This illustrates the real need
for early mailing Early mailing is
especially important in the case of
Parcel Post matter
II also wish to call attention that
the mails close one hour before train
time to give dispatching clerks enough
time to tie ont the mails and the
messenger to reach the depot to- un-
load mail onto the truck before the
train arrives.
IF all the large matters would at
nocn sign the letters which had been
written and have them mailed at once
and would again have their mail de-
posited in the middle of the afternoon,
this evening top load world be great
ly reduced. Any assistance you can
render will be appreciated by all of
the employees of sIris Office