The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-04


IT'S almost impossible to stop
and keep the service going.
However, the department has
the situation under fair control by
making deliveries too unreliable to
be worth monkeying with even II
attempted.
There aren't collectors to make
collections. There aren't carriers
TO deliver EN-. get and dispatch
considerable mail and at least rs
per cent Of it simply disintegrates.
Business concerns tell me the
same thing.
Delivery kids seem to be the lit
tie miscreants.
Boys to Blame
Small boys have been put on the
fob as substitutes for responsible
carriers. The little squirts are
worthless.
Illustratively:
have a house on a we'll known
street with its name tagged on
every corner and my numbers con-
spicuously marked in front and the
kid reports that he can't find that
address. The mail piles up for
awhile and then the regular carrier
registers present. Maybe your
newspaper deliveries are the same
way. In the morning you ought to
get II around s a. m. II you get it
at 8, you're lucky. The trouble
with 'em is that you're dealing
with those irresponsible little kids
on jobs as substitutes. You could
kick IL they were regulars but you
have to be thankful to get 'em as
substitutes.
Business in Washington is in the
same general way. The postofice
is better than the average because
It's better established.
HALF A dozen years ago my
young daughter undertook an ex-
petition, accompanied by her
mother. from our rented family
headquarters in Washington. out
into nearby suburban Alexandria,
on the Virginia side of the Poto-
mac, for look at the Revolution
airy historical scenery that the
burg fairly bulges with.
It's a pretty little place and
they fancied 1t. Accordingly, re-
turning to the capital. they inform
ed me that they'd decided we were
to buy small house there.
With my wife I have a certain
amount Of influence. So far as she
was concerned, my protest might
have weighed materially. My
daughter. however, wasn't brought
up to be subservient to her dads
dictation.
Whatever you may think about
IT," daughter announced definitely.
we're going to acquire that shack
In Alexandra"
Naturally ! had no option but to
compromise by acquiescing.
We moved, then. out to Alexan-
dria Ny daughter arranged the
dicker. was to dig up regular
monthly instruments, to run pretty
well on into perpetuity, with final
ownership Of the house and lot ul-
timately to vest itself In me. II
live long enough. or. II die. for
my wife and daughter to inherit it.
Howled in Vain
Well, we moved. Communication
was Just as bad as I'd anticipated.
The expense was OF no great con-
sequence. Monthly payments and
transportation hardly footed as
much as a Washington rental in
those days. The trips were an in
fernal nuisance. though. I howled
constantly, but there was nothing
could do about It, My daughter
got married and went to Argen-
tina; then Mexico. / still was
stuck with the initial proposition.
Then the war popped
Washington filled up TO such an
extent that il was overfowing.
Rentals skyhooted. Due TO the
overflow. they likewise sky-hooted
In all Of Washington's suburbs,
such as Alexandra. That didn't
make any difference to me. though,
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