The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-10-20
P. 0. INSPECTOR
SOON TO COME
Business at Local Post Office De.
mands an Additional Letter
Carrier to Handle Mail.
CLERKS WORK OVERTIME

Within the space of a very short
time a Post Office Inspector will visit
P~leasantville to go over the territory
and decide whether or not this city is
to be given an additional letter carri-
er. Aside from giving additional pat
rons the advantage of free city deliv-
cry, an additional letter carrier, If
granted, will increase the efficiency of
the entire local service. This will be
brought about through the fact that
many of the patrons who now have to
receive their mail from the general
delivery will be served by carrier,
thereby releasing the clerks to a large
extent from the general delivery win
dow and allowing them to give this
time to handling the incoming and
outgoing mails.
With the vast increase in the I'M
ount of mail handled at the local Post
Office, both incoming and outgoing,
which it is estimated has more than
tripled in the past six months, the
office force has been worked continu-
ously at full speed in order to keep up
with the pace of this rapid increase.
Several of the employees have worked
overtime and at night, without com.
p~ensation, in order to give the pat
rons the best possible service. 1t
must b, borne in mind that, notwith-
standing this enormous increase of
work, the force has not been proper
~tionately increase.
The Department has allowed an ex-
ira clerk, which is a great help toward
meeting the conditions due to the rap
i'd growth of population of Pleasant
Vile, but falls far short of meeting the
requirements of the office. The Post
master feels, however, that with an
additional carrier added at this time,
the bulk of the work of the general
delivery window will be eliminated,
thus allowing the time of the clerks
to be given more to the dispatching of
mails, the receiving and sorting n
the casing in the lock boxes.
In addition to this work, there is a
vast amount of correspondence to be
handled, besides the enormous amount
of clerical work and bookkeeping re-
uuired in an office of this size. Re-
ports of the several departments have
to be furnished the Department at
Washington continually, n this ne
cessitates a great deal of book-keep-
ing and correspondence.
The public itself will be a large
factor in securing this extra carrier
which the Postmaster is constantly
working for. The Department at
Washington has certain set rules and
regulations it requires to be carried
out in order that this service may be
obtained. First, n of prime import
ance, is the matter of good sidewalks.
You can cooperate in this matter by
having sidewalks placed in front OF
your home, if you do not already have
them. The main requests for city
delivery service come from the eX-
IRENE northern and southern sections
of the city, and it is here especially
that property owners should see that
sidewalks are laid without delay. The
Department is very insistent on THIS
point. Another very important matter
is the correct numbering OF houses,
and the supplying of receptacles TO
receive the mall.
After YOU have complied with these
requirements, see that those VINO COM
municate with you address your mall
by street and number. This saves con-
siderable confusion in casing the
mails for the carriers at the office be-
fore they start on their routes. There
is probably more mail delayed IN de-
livery because of incorrect or insui1l-
cient address than any other one rea-
son. With so many new people res1d-
ing here at the present time, 1t is prac-
tically impossible for the clerks to
know all of them personally. If your
mail is correctly addressed, however
it is quite a simple matter to locate
you.
Let the property owners get busy
with the above suggestions and we
believe there will be very little doubt
of another carrier being added to the
local force.