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Show A STORY OF WASTED TIME. The minute wasted by each post, man waiting for some one to open the door, counts up in the course of his rounds and may amount to an "hour or more every day. In a town employing em-ploying eight or ten carriers it costs tho postoffice an extra day's work. Iu large cities the loss may run into hundreds hun-dreds of dollars. The postmaster general gen-eral estimates the yearly loss over the wholG ocuntry as a result of this little dclajmultiplled millions of times as more than 1,000,000. He has already cut the expenses of the department down to within approximately ap-proximately $5,000,000 of the income, and now proposes to Ion oft another million of the excess by eliminating the door opening delay. Upon his recommendation rec-ommendation the postoffice committee commit-tee of the House has Inserted In the postoffice appropriation bill a provision provi-sion that after 1911 city letter carriers car-riers will not make deliveries at residences res-idences -or places of business unprovided unpro-vided with "sultablo boxes or other receptacles" for mall matter, located near the door or entrance. ' 1 This new rule will probably arouse vociferous opposition in many quarters, quar-ters, hut It seems justified if any such 'saving as that predicted is likely to result. In the case of rural free delivery de-livery each householder is required to put up a private mall box, not on the front door, but on tho front fence, or a post or tree in the road. In many cases the mall man drives up to the box and, without getting out of his wagon, makes the necessary exchanges. ex-changes. Where such convenient fa-calltles fa-calltles exist he can deliver nhe mail more expeditiously than his city brother. broth-er. For the latter has to climb a flight of steps at many houses,; and ) will apparently not be relieved of this even after the new rule goes: Into force. Sew York Commercial. |