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Are Carrying Lanterns

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
December
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The Ann Arbor Carriers Are Thus Equipped

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CARRY MAIL AFTER DARK 

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On Account of a Mistaken Order of the Postoffice Dept. Which Greatly Delays Mail.

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There was considerable kicking about the city yesterday afternoon over the delay of two hours or over in the receipt of the afternoon mail at the residences about the city. The new order of the postoffice department in reference to the mail here took effect yesterday and the carriers now leave the postoffices at 3:30 local time. The foot carriers are delivering mail from half to three quarters of an hour after dark, while Baxter and Donnelly, the two mounted carriers, are out for an hour and a half after dark. They were forced to provide themselves with lanterns. It is thought that the mounted carriers may be started out an hour earlier, which would cause them to miss the 1:55 mail.

The inconveniences and delays imposed by the change in the hour of delivery are many, and as time goes on, will be more and more forcibly called to the attention of the patrons of the office. Not only are they delayed two hours in the receipt of their mail, but letters dropped in the letter boxes don't get out as soon as they did.

Formerly the letters collected from the boxes caught a fast eastern mail and a northern mail, which are now missed. The eastern letters are delayed five horus, while the northern mail, much of it, must be held until the next morning. All this to catch a little dab of letters which come off the 1:55 train, a habitually belated train. 

Postmaster Pond did what he could to prevent the change in the hour of delivery being made and appeals for redress must be made to the postoffice department at Washington.

At the request of a prominent citizen, a protest will be drawn up by the Argus and left at this office for the signatures of those who want the delivery of mail at the old hours. It is designed to make this protest the more emphatic by not circulating the petition, but simply leaving it at the Argus office for the signatures of those who are inconvenienced enough to cause them to take the trouble to come to the office to sign it. In other words, it is to be a protest voluntarily signed and in this respect differing from the ordinary protest to which signatures are solicited.

From expressions heard on the street, the Argus judges that our citizens do not wish to see the letter carriers carrying around lanterns to deliver mail, when by taking an earlier start they will get the mail around sooner and get the letters collected from the boxes out in better season.