Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-11-30 | Page 12 | Busy at Postoffice

BUSY AT POSTOFFICE Clerks Arranging the Great Mass of Material Moved From Old Building. it was a busy day, indeed, for the clerks :it the postomce yesterday The great mass Of material moved from the Old ofllce the previous night had to be put In shapo ius well hh possible before the windows were opened for business yesterday morning but things were not in ship-shape by any means, with a holiday, holi-day, how. ver. the clerks win be able to g. -t things in prett) good ordei and then ih. re win bi no further trouble at least until the holiday rush begins Tho greatest annoyance of yesterday Was caused by the exchanging of keH at the box window. A long line of pultons pu-ltons stood at the window from the openltiK to the clolng hour, and then not half the keys hud been exchanged. Pa- tlenc. . says the assistant postmaster, Is all that is required In this m.-itier, und If patrons will lust call at the window for their mall, and bide tli. lr lime about . m hanging k. -. anj unpleasantness Will be avoided Considerable annoyance was experienced experi-enced by some Of the clerks when It wae found that the electric lamps were not in working order. This was quickly remedied, however, and some new drop lights were Instituted where needed In Order that the work of arranging the oML . might be continued last night Because of changes In the arrangement of distributing leixe- and pOUChea, the clerks arc experiencing some little- difficulty diffi-culty In distributing the mall. Accustomed Accus-tomed as they were to the id arrangement, arrange-ment, it is nor easy to change In a day, and the work of distributing yesterday w.i somewhat slow. Today the information window, the gen-eral gen-eral delivery window ami the stamp window win-dow will be open from S a. m. to 1 p. in. The registered letter department will be open from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m.. but the money ur.l. r window will be closed all day. The carriers will make two deliveries deliv-eries in the business district In the morning, morn-ing, but In the residence) district there will be one delivers, also in the morning Mull will be collected from th.- various boxes four limes during ihe day. twice each in tin? forenoon anel afternoon. Tim h. u.-l mall will he collected at S p. m.