The Argus Has Its Own Carriers

Under a new regulation of the postoffice department, the Argus is obliged to either deliver its papers to its city subscribers by its own carriers or pay one cent postage on each paper sent through the office. As it would cost us $1.04 postage a year for each city subscriber, whose paper is sent by mail, the regulation amounts to a prohibition of mailing the Argus to Ann Arbor subscribers. The new regulation does not apply to our weekly contemporaries. It is due to Postmaster Beal to state that he is in no way responsible for this rather unfair discrimination. The Argus is furnished at a cost to subscribers of less than a cent and a quarter a paper and the extra expense of being obliged to hire a number of private carriers is a heavy tax. We shall endeavor however to reach our subscribers earlier as soon as we can arrange our carrier districts more perfectly and get our boys accustomed to their routes. If anyof our subscribers do not receive their papers promptly on Tuesdays and Fridays they will do us a favor by notifying this office.