The Carriers Must Hustle

The postoffice department at Washington has given orders for the most rigid enforcement of the eight hour law for carriers and will not permit any overtime to be donated hy the carriers or required by the postmaster. So that a new schedule of working time has been rendered imperative in the Ann Arbor office. The carriers report 5 , utes earlier in the morning, being given 5 minutes less time to make their morning collections, They also have 10 minutes less time in the evening. Owing to the frequency with which the mails arrive a few minutes late in the winter, the windovvs for the delivery of mail will be opened at 7:15 and will close at 7:35 p. m. In order to relieve the long line at the window of carrier No. 1, residents of Maynard, Thompson and Jefferson streets who have their mail delivered by carrier No. 1, in the day time, will get their mail from the window of carrier No. 7, in the evening. As the line at window 7 is much shorter this will cause less delay in getting their mail. The carriers are also prohibited from going back to houses to receive mail. The letter boxes are put out for the purpose of receiving letters and the time lost by the carriers in going back to houses to take letters is so much as to prevent their delivering all their mail and getting back to the office within eight hours unless the practice is stopped. The orders from Washington are so stricl that the carriers must report back to the office on the scheduled time, even if they have to bring back part of their loads undelivered, so that everyone can see the justice of this restriction. An effort is being made to obtain additional carriers for the city, which has, however, met with a partial refusal. Itwill be, however, pushed for all it is worth. In the meantime the postmaster requests those citizens who have not yet provided their houses with letter boxes to do so, or to cut openings in their doors so that the mail may be delivered without delay. The mails coming into the Ann Arbor postoffice are constantly increasing and the carriers are indeed compelled to hustle.