The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-02-27
Pity the Mail Man.

There is a guy that calls on you
every working day in the year. folks.
He comes in weather that you or / or
the other fellow wouldn't venture out
in unless under some strong compul-
sion and then chances are we would
make lot of NIKE noise about it.
This daily caller brings you letters,
papers. and lot of heavyweight
stuff by parcel post that used to neces-
state many long, tedious tri 70 into
town. The r. F. D. man and the city
carrier do all these things for you.
and from what we've seen of that
bunch of guys they do it real cheer
fully and bring you the latest COM
munlty news when they have the time,
for good measure.
The X. f. ID. man in particular gets
very light pay check for his work.
We know, we tried it once, and
couldn't make it reach to first base;
so, being footloose, we broke loose
while the breaking was good. But
there are lots of men who have their
all invested in equipment to handle
this job and these are the men who,
day after day, make the rounds, make
the roads for you in the winter time.
tell you whether you can get to town
without chains in the summer time,
and make of themselves in general
mighty useful citizens.
It's not an easy job by a dozen
durnsights. 1t sure gets monotonous,
hitting the same trail for all the ways
from % to 81 miles per day, and what
gets a guy is making the same road
each trip. Personally, we travel more
now than we did on the route, MAX
ing up to a thousand miles per week,
but it's not over the same trail every
time and we find it easier than ITO
miles used to be when in the mail ser
vice, as we get a lot of variety and
dodge the endless red tape which is
one of Sthe bugbears of almost any
branch of the government service.
But there is one of the most annoying
bugbears in the service that can be
taken care of locally if the patrons
will just get busy and stamp it out,
and that's the penny-in-t he-box nu-
isance. There is nothing quite as an
noying and puts a carrier out of hum
or as much as finding lot of pennies
in the box on frosty morning in
place of finding letters stamped and
ready for transit, as they ought to be.
When a man has to take off his nit
tens and pick up these pennies with
his stiffened fingers, his has got to
be a rather angelic disposition or he
would drive off pronto and leave then.
there, as he is not compelled to pick
up pennies, the Department taking the
stand that there is no excuse for any
one not stamping their mail when
the carrier has a supply of stamps
with him at all times, thereby bring
ing this detail under the head of will
full neglect and leaving it to the car
rier's discretion whether to take or
leave same. In most cases the car
riers are too strongly on the order of
good fellows to leave unstamped mail
in the boxes, but go through the un-
necessary hardships in order to give
better service, expedite delivery, etc.
But all good things, if imposed on
too much, come to an end, so, folks,
why not meet them halfway in this
matter and stamp all letters? It's
an easy thing for you to do and it sure
means a lot to the man making this
long, cold trip each and every day.
We recall one persistent jitney de-
positor who we called the turn on
one day while on the rounds, ard left
his letter addressed to his 18-karat
sweetie and held down by couple of
picayunes in the box, for his reconsid-
GRAFTON.
Well, to make long story short.
this enamoured gent had started to
reconsider along towards night and
was wondering how he could head
this letter of before delivery was
made, getting him all tangled up in
matrimony. rolling PIN barrages, etc.
In ais unsettled condition, he rambled
down towards the mail box, and, open