Postmaster L. B. Krook

Receives Communication from Congressman Frank Clague.

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LOBBY TO BE CLOSED

10 P.M. TO 4:30 A.M.

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No Mail Dispatched After 3 P.M. on Sunday Until Following Day. Accommodation Not the Best.

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Postmaster L. B. Krook informs the Journal that beginning Sunday, night service at the local post office will be discontinued. This is in accordance with an order issued by First Assistant Postmaster General John H. Bartlett. Readers of the Journal will remember that early in December Postmaster Krook secured permission to hold in abeyance the order to discontinue the night service until January 15. In the interim he communicated with Congressman Frank Clague at Washington, who took the matter up with the first assistant postmaster general, in an effort to have the order rescinded. His efforts were unavailing and therefore Mr. Krook has no alternative, but to abide by the provisions of the order discontinuing the night service.

Mail Made up Early

Mail dispatched on the east and west Northwestern passengers at night, must be in the post office before 8:30 o’clock, as this mail will be made up between that time and 9 o’clock, when the mail messenger will take it to the depot, when he goes to meet the 9:20 p.m. Northwestern train. It will remain in the depot until the night trains arrive.

On Sunday no mail will be dispatched after 3 o’clock in the afternoon, until the following day.

Lobby Closed at 10 0’Clock

The lobby in the local post office, on week days, will be closed at 10 o’clock in the evening, and will remain closed until the following morning at 4:30 o’clock. This hour may be changed to a later time, at some future date.

If patrons of the local post office do not approve of the arbitrary manner in which the night service has been protest to Congressman Clague and to the first assistant postmaster general

Make Saving of $1,300 Per Year

It is the claim of the department, according to the communication from Cong. Clague, that a saving will be made of $1,300 per year, if the night service is discontinued. This is in dispute. Mr. Bartlett informed Mr. Clague, that if the new arrangement did not give good and satisfactory results that steps would be taken to place the service in as good condition as it is now.

Postmaster Krook has asked for an additional city carrier. This matter will be taken up at once, states Mr. Clague.

To show how the receipts are increasing at the local post office it is only necessary to state that in 1904 the receipts were $11,740.82, with five clerks, including the assistant postmaster, to discharge the work.In 1911 the receipts had increased to $18,291.93 and six clerks, including the assistant postmaster were employed. The receipts last year with the same number of clerks were $44,336.34. It does not seem possible in view of the increasing business and comparing the new schedule with that including night service that the public will be as well served in the future as in the past.

Brown County Journal,

January 15, 1926

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