Milford chronicle., 1926-05-28
MILFORD, FRIDAY, MAY %. 1926
A GOOD START toward bettering

A GOOD START toward bettering
Milford's mail service was made last
week when the postof1ce department
at Washington advertised for bids
for the Star Route between Harring-
ton and Rehoboth. Announcement of
the approval of the project was
printed in last weeks issue of the
Chronicle. Under the schedule as
announced the early morning mail
will arrive in Milford at o'clock
each morning, and outgoing mail
will leave Milford each evening at 8
o'clock. The plan is fine, and if it
works out as the patrons of the post
Office hope, it will be real blessing
to the people of Milford. Under the
present schedule of hours at the
Milford postofice those who are
compelled to use the Office early in
the morning or in the evening find it
very inconvenient-in fact real
source of delay; not only for them
selves, but for the mail which they
wish to send out. At present the
money order windows are closed un-
til 8 o'clock in the morning. Each
day a large number of people are
compelled to wait until that hour to
purchase money orders which are
desired to be forwarded on the $3.50
a. m. train. 1t is impossible for all
of them to be accommodated; so the
letters are delayed a whole day in
delivery as a result. Another real
source of annoyance, is the closing
of all windows at o'clock each
evening. The evening mail does not
arrive at the Milford postoffice until
6:12 o'clock; and, at the best it is z
o'clock before it can be distributed.
Only those holding lock boxes can be
served that evening under the pres
ent system. Strangers desiring mail
before leaving town the next MORN
ing cannot secure it, and a general
annoyance is the result.
The new plan about to be inaug-
urated is fne-if the mail is to be
sorted and distributed Immediately
upon arrival in Milford. But if it is
to lie in the local Office until the
main force comes on later in the
morning then the service to the pub
lie by the Milford Office will be very
little better than at present. Post
master Davis is to be congratulated
upon his successful work to get the
additional service for Milford; but,
unless he gets a ruling from the
postoffice department which will per-
nit a new schedule of hours for his
working force, to better handle the
mails, no great improvement to the
patrons of the Office is to be expect
ed. The business men Of Milford
desire quicker sorting of the mails
in the postofice here and more rap
id distribution of the mails in the
lock boxes in the Milford postof1ce.
This can be accomplished only by
placing more men at work while the
mails are being sorted and delivered.
If this is done-and it should be
Milford will be blessed with real
postal service. Service is the main
object in all postofice work. Post
masters and postal employees who
remember this fact, will find that
satisfactory service is a powerful
hold on tenure of Office. The people
are the government, and therefore
the people are the employers Of all
who are in the postal service. Milford
has had good postal service, but
there is no reason why future SER
vice should not be better-if it is
possible. The proposed improvement
for Milford and other Sussex county
towns can be, and it must be better
service, and not simply another po-
sition for an additional Star Route
carrier. The postmasters can do
much to make it real service.
JUNE 18th ENDS the school year
for all public schools in Delaware,
so far as actual study by the chill
dren is concerned; but the COM
mencement exercises and graduation
ceremonies, which follow after the
student work ends, will be held dur
ing the week following and the var
ious boards of education close the
school year of 1925-1926 with June
3Oth; when the new school year
starts. Milford has closed the
school year with almost an even
break financially, with the money as
signed to the district by the State
BOARD of Education, from the school
fund. Fortunately, the school has
retained all of the teachers who SER
we'd during the closing year, and will
20 into the next years work with an
especially efficient corps of teachers.