Don't Suit The People

DON'T SUIT THE PEOPLE

A NERVY CONTRACTOR GETS A SCHEDULE CHANGED.

And Deprives the People of Geer of Ease of Doing Traiding in Ann Arbor.

A new mail schedule will be put in force between Geer and Ann Arbor on the first of next July and the patrons of the Geer office are not at all pleased with it. And when the Ann Arbor merchants come to understand it they will not like it either. At present the route starts from Geer, the carrier returning in the afternoon. Under the new schedule the route starts from Ann Arbor, the carrier returning from Geer in the evening. The reason for the fault found by the Geer patrons is largely that they have been accustomed to send in by the Geer carrier tor packages of merchandise or of riding in with him to do some trading and under the new arrangement they cannot come in without staying over night and it compels them to wait until the next day for their packages, all of which will more or less injure to the benefit of Ypsilanti merchants.

There is something of a story connected with the change of the schedule. A new contractor has the contract for carrying the mails at a ridiculously low price. The people around Geer are acquainted with the work the carrier has to do and so he came to Ann Arbor to get a carrier. But to do this the schedule must be changed to start the route from Ann Arbor. To get the post office department to do this the consent of the postmasters at each end of the route must be obtained. Now the Geer post office recently changed hands and has a postmistress. She was naturally averse to signing any such recommendation but the agent of the contractor told her that if she didn't sign he would have the postmaster at Ann Arbor take up the Geer post Office as it wasn't paying any way. So in order to save the office she signed. These facts if laid before the department properly will undoubtedly lead to the schedule being changed back as at present.