Show REFORM IN THE POSTAL SERVICE R Redistribution distribution of the Duties of Cor Assistants oJ 1 WORK TOELESS E LESS COMPLEX I ORDER Go GOES s I TO EFF CT DE DEo DECEM o CEM CEMBER E 1 Washington No Gen oral eral Cortelyou today issued an order or of Importance redistributing the duties of tho four assistant post postmasters postmasters masters and affliCting the on tire postal service The Tho order will wUl car carry carry ry into eff t on Dee Dec 1 a plan ot of the tho postmaster g general to consolidate the work b by groupIng one bureau aU all related subjects The Tho will be to r the postmaster generals pf per r sonni supervision the direction o ot the tho posta posIa under tinder the fir fIrst t a assistant the 1 And management wider under the second a assistant 51 all ull matters malters rt to the tho transportation of the malls mails under the assistant all mat lers or of postal finance Inan and under the fourth assistant tilt the rural free fre dt delivery and miscellaneous postal By tak taking lug ing the of appointments the division of bonds and commissions and I the dIvision of 0 city delivery from Crom the fourth assistant and givinG them to the first assistant the latter r willi will have huye tinder his immediate supervision the tho entire of the throughout the country Including post postmasters masters assistant postmasters clerks I I and carriers ll except rural carriers auth autha t a great greut deal of correspondence between Uw the two bureaus with serious delays in action arising from a division ot of authority will be avoided I Second Assistants Work The office of the second a I postmaster ge general leral will continue to ha have 0 charge har of the groat subject of the trans of the mails and sud whito UK its divIsion Is not affected the transfer to the first assistant tel general of the control of the move fluent of the mails within tit the Jurisdiction tion Of the larger Jarger is eon con contern tern pat ed under the order artIer office of if the third Is at af d by the transfer to it or of the di division vl vision lon of thi money orders from the theoffice theoffice office of th the first a assistant nt The thIrd assistant already hoe the stamp division the registry division in aud th the division n of 1 postal finance cud and th addition of the montO order wit will bring the thC I prIncipal revenue producing branches of the department tinder one erie h head ad rho dl d vision or of flips and auth records in t this is cf c flee fie Is abolished its and work is assigned to the chief clerk of the bureau milking making his duties eon con conform form to those e of similar l positions in inthe inthe the other bureaus s I The Fourth Assistant While the office of the fourth assist nia fint postmaster general has had taken from It the preparation or of cases for the appointment of postmasters it gains In transferred to it the of i dead letters the division of the post office and the topographers office It will ill to have the rural fl free delivery service the growth of whIch In re recent years hs Jt been et phe phenomenal and It is here herc that much lan can he be done In the direction of improved I I and economies of administration I It 11 being relieved of the task of th appointment and bonding of post postmasters musters masters and lind the supervision ot of the city It free freo delivery service the fourth assist assistant ant can devote a larger r share of at al n to this newest and in some re respects respects most Important branch of the paMa servIce The chief Inspector in ad addition to the supervIsion or of the tors will hereafter have charge or of the rural who as members Q f the force of the thu department cOn Clin with great advantage be assigned to the division of inspectors I I The divIsion or Of Is 1 being re reorganized or organized an and enlarged so as to om em embrace brute brace all of oC th the supplies work or of the department j |