Must Get A Hustle On

The Post office department at Washington, D. C, -has issued some very strict orders in relation to the mail carriers working over time, and unless the citizens will assist the carriers as much as they possibly can in theit work, the present free delivery boundariea will have to be reduced. So do not ask a carrier to do anything that takes a moment of his time. Each carrier ■ is. allowed a certain specified time each day tor delivering the mail matter on his route, and if he is unable to deliver all that he carries out. with him and get back to the office at the hour set for him to return, he has orders to bring all such mail matter undelivered back to the office, where it will remain until it can be delivered - if not called for in the meantime. As every one will see every minute must be used by the carriers to raake their delivery. If citizens will either leave tlieir front doors unlocked or put a mail box in a convenient place they will be assisting tnaterially in tbis work, In fact 011e or the otlier i a uecesalu . The postmaster and the carriers desire to accommodate the people asmnch as possible in collecting mail, but as tlie city is abundantly supplied with mail boxes, the carriers have been given positive orders not to collect mail from residences. A carrier can accept of a letter, of conree, if it is handed to hirn already for mailing, but otherwise he must decline to take it. Because of the above changes the time for deliver}' at carriers Windows has been reduced from a half hour to twenty minutes - from 7 :15 to 7 :35 p. in., each day. The former hour was from 7 :00 to 7 :30. The carriers haye also had the time allowed them for their morning collecions reduced, and are 'now rushed through with their work at a limited express schedule. In this uonnection the following, taken fromacommunicationoftheBattle Creek postmaster in the papers of that city are applicable here : "Carriers are not expected to be delayed taking letters from the house for mailing. They should be placed in the Street letter boxes. Private letter boxes should be on every house and in an accessible place for leaving the mail ; and where the house stands back some distanee froin the street the box should be placed near the street. A carrier should not be asked to do errands of any kind. The carriers all wish to be oblijiing and would willingly serve the public in any capacity. "While on their route, however, they must not be detained, as every minute's delay is robbing some other patrón of his mailing ■ facilities." If our citizens will bear all these iarls in mind when they are tempted to ask favors of the carriers, they will .save those gentlemen the unpleasant duty of reí using to do a favor which they would be glad to do if allowed to.