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Show The Green Card In the Mall Box, There is a little green card in use by the postoffice department that is a terror to careless letter carriers. It is a terror only whon they have once been caught. Very seldom, indeed, ure they caught the second time. This card is dropped in a letter box, and on it is marked the time it was put in and also the time it should be taken out Toy the carrier. A record is kept by the chiof of the carriers, and if that littlo curd does not turn up with the other mail with which it is due it is clearly to be seen that the carrier lias not taken the mail from that particular partic-ular box. Tho object, of course, is to test the reliability of the carriers. Where there is any complaint on the part of citizens about the tardiness of local mails, then a little green card is dropped in one or more boxes in the district from which the complaint comes. Sometimes it shows carelessness on the part of the carrier and sometimes it does not. It is, however, not necessary that thore should bo complaints, for frequently the cards are put in the boxes of the most efficient men. Of course they are happy when they discover them. But whore a box is missac'l in which there is a green card, then the carrier is bound to get into trouble, and very serious trouble at that. Leniston Journal. |