The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-01-05
THE WEST coRINTH MAIL.
Postmaster c. I. Speare Makes an Eek
PLANTATION.

| Editor. Barre Times: In your valued
paper under date of the Goth ult, your
Corinth correspondent had very caus-
tic article regarding the departments
change in the mail carriers schedule
from West Corinth TO Bradford, which
showed either malicious design or de
cided lack of knowledge OF the facts
and conditions. / believe the fourth as
sistant postmaster general had the
facts before him, when the change was
ordered, and / firmly believe all post
masters or other interested parties on
the route are perfectly willing to cater
to the best interests Of the service.
Here are the facts:
The old schedule which was changed
is before me and reads. Leave West
Corinth daily, except Sunday, at 5:45
a. M; arrive in Bradford by $3.50 a. m.
Leave Bradford, daily except Sunday,
on receipt Of mail from train due about
1904 p. m, but not later than 4 p. m;
arrive at West Corinth in three and
three -fourths hours.
The present schedule is changed in its
last half to read: Leave Bradford
daily on receipt of mail from train due
about 1910 a. NJ, but not later than
IL M; arrive in West Corinth in three
and three-fourths hours.
These two schedules, If lived up to,
do not vary the amount Of mail taken
to Corinth or West Corinth one iota
and gets our mail to us at "A season.
able time to answer and return on the
following mail. A north bound mail
train is scheduled to arrive in Bradford
$40 a. m; the south bound mail
and Boston paper train IL the one
scheduled TO arrive in Bradford at
1907 a. m. and is the one referred to
in the last corrected schedule and con
tains all the mail we could possibly
get under the old schedule. as the
train referred to in the old schedule
above now has schedule for it's ar.
rival in Bradford at 1855 p. IN. Sta
tion is about one mile from Bradford
postoffice and it is an absolute impossi-
bility for the mail from that train to
get to postoiiice, much more be
changed and get on stage that leaves
at p. m. In other words under the old
schedule If lived up to, our carrier was
staying and consequently Or mail be-
ing held in Bradford from the time OF
the change Of mail from the l0:07
train until o'clock for absolutely no
purpose. A change was necessary from
the very nature of things either to
make the carrier wait until o'clock
as has been done in years before. only
to get the small amount of letter mail
and parcel post arriving on that par
ticular north bound train or TO change
so our mail could get to us in the short
winter days in respectable and answer
able season instead of 8;45 p. m.
II the writer of that conglomeration
or others wish TO have il changed in
the ether direction we might delay un-
til the 1921 train arrives Bradford
o. net later than . o'clock and make
arrival in West Corinth at l0:45 p. ~,
making an all night job with no chance
for a reply by return mail.
have been postmaster here for, ]
think. 2s years and am perfectly will
ing and ready to assist in what ] be-
licyc to be the good of cur patrons and
the service generally, but as one Of the
patrons, who, perhaps. receives more
mail than any other patron on this
iNutt anu hNAtlE tOiiiftNta WIN ittA VI
snge County Telephone company as
president for the past 20 odd years
whose secretary and trcasurer's Office Is
located here and which company prob
ably receives and sends ten times the
amount Of mail Of any other person.
family or company on the route, the
letters running into the hundreds many
days in the year tonly a few days
ago / sent them 1897 reportsl. am
heartily in favor Of present conditions,
and believe any fair-minded person
who carefully looks at the conditions
will see II exactly the same Kindly |
the change makes absolute
" no change in the amount Of mail 4
you get and any change You make to |
get more simply forces it into the
night at this end.
c. l. Spcare, postmaster.
West Corinth, VT. Jan. /, 1922.