Swing Room For Carriers

Established at the Ann Arbor Postoffice

CARRIERS CHANGE PLACES

Four Carriers on the Postoffice Force Shift Routes - Baxter Again Takes Foot Route

A number of changes have been made at the postoffice owing to the resignation of Vernor P. Snauble, letter carrier on route No. 1. William L. Baxter who has been a mounted carrier ever since the mounted service was established has taken route No. 1. In Baxter's place, John J. Richmond, who has been carrying route No. 12, now has route 8. Robert E. Christman, who has been carrying route No. 15, takes Richmond's old route and John J. O'Brien who has been substitute carrier, takes Christman's place in temporary route No. 15. Thus owing to one resignation, four men have shifted places.

Another new feature at the postoffice is the establishment of a swing room for carriers. The reader must not imagine that there is a swing in this room. It is only a room where carriers may stay and spend the time as they please between swings, that is between the time they come in from a delivery until such time as they report to get ready for the next delivery. The postoffice department is averse to carriers being about the postoffice except on duty, and their duty lasts eight hours, but not consecutively. Sometimes the recesses, or swings, are not long enough to pay a carrier to go home and it is for these intervals that swing rooms are prepared. The new swing rooms at the postoffice consist of two rooms in the southeast corner of the second story of the postoffice building.