New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1929, Page 11

" POSTHASTERS UF STATE NEET ERE (Continued from First Page) charge of the local arrangements, opened the meeting with an address /of welcome and turned the gavel ‘over to Postmaster Ha of Hartford, state vice president. Postmaster Albert E. Wellman of Torrington is state secretary. Ofticers Elected The business wsession adjourncd ‘ghortly before one o'clock. The fol- Jdowing officers were clected just be- fore adjournment: President, James J. Fitzpatrick of Meriden; vice president, Harry K. Taylor of Hartford; secretary and treasurer, Albert E. Wellman of Tor- rngton; directors, W. E. Brown of Naugatuck, George E. Dickinson ot | Rockville, James k. Usher of Plain- | ville. C. 1. Byington of Norwalk, | Fhilip Dewire of New London, E. C. Ward of Middletown, Harry Muir of | Thomaston, C. E. Burnham of Hart- | ford: A. N. Colgrove of Waterbury | #ud H. E. Erwin of New Britain. Banquet at Noon The business session closed at | noon und was followed by a ban- quet. Among the postmasters who | are present arc H. E. Erwin of New Britain, Harry K. Taylor of Hart- dord, William Meyer of Bridgeport, Yrank S Merrill of Bristol, E. H. | Bailey of Danbury, Joseph Brush of | Greenwich, George L. Benedict of | Winsted, James J. Fitzpatrick of | Meriden, Albert E. Wellman of Tor- | rvingten, A. 8. Ward of Middi: Charles Birely ot New Haven, : master Dwire of New London, C. 1. Lyington of Norwalk, Liicoln Tuylo ot Stamford, W. krauk Smith ot} Wallingtord, A. N. Colgrove of| Wateroury, F. M. Smith ot \\'H.‘I-‘ mantic, C. K. Bailey of Bethel, W.| H. Gould of Fairtield, J. I Holden | ot Forestville, W. L. Gates of Glas- | tonbury, S. M. Cowles of Kensington, | C. C. Patten of Mystic, . K. Altord of OQakville, J Usher of Plain- | £. Dickinson of Rock- 1Lt of Seymour, John 1% of Southington, €. B. Lmery of Terryville, Harry Muir Thomaston, Williara Krause of Westport, O. I Troop of south Manchester, Anders Jucobsen of Statford Springs, . E. Crowe ot douth Norwalk, Bruce B. Randall of Bridgewater, Kobert E, Talt ot Unionville, Miss Jennie Bradley of Plymouth Mrs, Sarah Ruic of Farm- angton und W. L. Brown of Nauga- suck. A question box in which matters i Post ollice routine were discussed nducted by Postinaster Bailey nbury. The committee on res 8 brought in three resolu- thanking Postmnuster Erwin 3 hospitality and tor his work Urlng his team as president, and bledging the loyalty of the post- inasters to President Hoover and dostmaster General Brown. Future of Delivery The futurc of mail delivery was dwelt upon in an address by W, It Yarrington ot Boston, superintende ot the railway mail department. Mr. Yarrington’s address was as follows: This subject, “The Future of Mail Transportation’ wus suggested to i by your committee as the topic i Which it would like to have me talk, One of the reasons, 1 presume, for selecting the ‘future’ was to prevent me from talking as I have on several previous occasions, on the ‘pas “It 18 a comparatively easy matter 10 assemble statistics of past per formance and d clopment, and ta about them; it is a little more diff cult to predict or visualize future clopment and performance, but it provides a wide range for the im- agination and has the alvantage of immunity, at least in the present, from verification or checking up “Most of you, being in this postal service, know much of its history. Since the founding of this nation, even before it won its independence, its postal service followcd closcly on the heels of transportation condi- tions and facilitis, Our postal fce has even opened up roads anl trails; notably among these accom- plishments was the establishment of the famous pony express across the great wilderness and dar country west of the Mississippi riv- er. In order to have a proper per- spective of the present high devel- opment of our postal service in rela- tion to its past history as well as to its future possibilities we must not overlook its crude, primitive and slow beginning long before our greatest transportation agency, the railroads, were even conceived. ur entire postal establishment s primarily and principally a trans- portation business; the collection service, city, village and rural de- livery, star routes, motor vehicle and messenger service, are all transpor- tation. A reference to the annual report of the postmaster general for V- the vear ending June 30, 1928, shows | Pure, Rich, Milk is Wor It’s Our Responsibility and we are to milk only. iy is used by us—and every fine method of definitely in ry K. Taylor | that the total audited expendiures of the entire post office department were $725,699,765, three-quarters of a billion dollars. Of this amount $447,792,658 was for various kinds of transportation, including the sal- aries of those employes of the gov- ernment whose duties are transpor- tion, letter carriers, railway postal clerks, rural delivery, etc. The bal- ance of $277,907,658 was for salaries of other employes, supplies, rentals and equipment; about two-thirds of the total expenditure was for trans- portation l s in 10 Years out at an n that has developed in transportation methods during the past 10 years, {due to the perfection of motor ve hicles and the splendid roads that |bave been constructed. Each year {there is more and more highway transportation, not only of all sorts gers and the United States mail as well. This developrent has been and “It s unnecessary for me to point| v length the great changu} of commodities but also of passen- | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1929. shipping the cars directly through, {service it is believed that sooner or {which, it _has been demonstrated, (later more frequent deliveries than gives us quick recelpt at destina. (once a day will result. It is believed tion as if it were forwarded in|also that the volume of parcel poat small lots on all trains and had to |matter will greatly increase due to be unloaded again at intermediate | possible advertisement of this kind points. This practice, however, is | of busineas, in a manner similar to not followed for points less than one |that now employed to advertise the hundred and fifty miles distant or |air mail service, and increase in for more distant points when the |welght of parcels and possibly in volume of mail warrants more fre. |size. I think one ef the greatest fu. i ture transportation problems for LU. is increasingly difficult to 8. mail is the dellvery service, satisfy at times a public which “One other phase of mall trana- wants speedier train service and at portation and the newest one is de- the same time speedier parcel post veloping by leaps and bounds. I un- service. This will continue to be 'derstand you have a speaker here one of the big problems for the fu- o talk about that so I will not go ture. There are at the present t0 inte it extensively, It requires no some extent special parcel post gregt stretch of the imagination to trains and with increased business |conceive fleets of airplanes for ex- these trains may become faster and |press service and other planes for more frequent. However, it is be- |local service. It is only a question licved that more frequent and faster {of time when planes will be suc- rail transportation would mot add [cesstully landed and started perpen- greatly to the efficiency of the serv- |dicularly, and in anticipation of this ice as a whole without a closer co- [very thing the U, 8. government {tinued or isure teurized milk. ordination with the delivery trans- portation feature which I shall now attempt to discuss. “I think you will admit that the still is responsible for reductions| and curtailments of railroad train| service all over the United States, and rural electric lines which medium through which every post 40 years ago were hailed as a most|office receives its principal mails wonderful boom to rural communi-|should be given consideration in the ties, are rapidly.-hecomong a memory | establishment of local schedules of only. As these facilities a | delivery transportation. T don’t mean curtailed it becomes nec-|that they should control absolutely essary to the postal service to have|but they should be taken into con- them replaced and pract ly eve ion, and I think you will also replacement is by highway service. |zdmit that it is physically impossible There are not only villages but|for any agency to get all the mail many large towns and small €ities|into every post office at the same which now have but little or no time. So far as the service for first railroad service. Conscquently, greal und second class mail is concerned, quantit t mail are now traveling and with the exception of rural over the highways. Many 1o routes here and there, the various and patrons of the post offices transportation featlres seem to have and do bitterly these | heen fairly well coordinated, but s. not only from the fear of [with the parcel post there is atill a impaired mail but because | problem to be solved, and I can see their civic pride leads them to | where many difficulties enter into it. lieve that when no railroad trai run into or stop at their town the town is practically being tuke off the map. In most we have had to resort to hig nas- oppose service an contro! his delivery schedules, lan din view of the fact that, gener- cases whe ¥ | considered adequate for ordinary transportation of the United States|parcel post matter, it would seem mails the service has proved super-|that the postmaster could schedule ior to the railroad service for the |that delivery as nearly as possible reason that we can control sched-ito handle the big mails, which in all 1 due to the churacter of the| s and good roads the sched- | almost us fa as the t t previously operated, 1 predict large extension of this highwa mail trans ation for the tuture, |the purcel post delivery (say, for fl- iso that will hwve specially | lustration, at 8 a. m.) and it is im- cquipped motor trucks for the dis- | possible to get this mail to” him be- tribution of muils en route similar|fore §:30 a. m. or 9 a. m. In a case to our smaller railway mail cars.|of that kind it would seem from our particularly for first and second | viewpoint that the delivery schedule class mails. What is known as the should be set back to 9 a. m. instead star route is becoming a larger fac- of § in order to avofd a 24- tor in mail trausportation cvery day. |hour delay in delivery. Of course, Railroads Carry Load postmaster undoubtedly would “Railroad mail transportation, of contronted with difficulties. cou constitute by far the great- | Among them, I suppose, might be est a have and the great the time of the employes engaged in bulk of mail is transported by rail- | the delivery, and probably also con- roads. I'rior to the establishment | gested traffic conditions in the busi- of parcel post service rail transporta- (ness sections of cities during busi- tion presented no great problem |ness hours and the difficulty in find- either to the operators or to the |ing parking space for delivery government, but at the present time | trucks, it is one of the large problems of both. Increasing demand by public for specdier operation traing is resulfing in the necessily 0 far as transportation is co of segregating certain matls from certain making First elass ules are |not infrequently from W a0 we the | the public for of faster parcel of | Classes, | traffie. ses TNV TN other ANNOUNC! two classes of mail 1d daily paper mail are given on nearly all the I lins preferential and specdier handling than parcel post, zine and mis- cellancous mail, even to the extent of withliolding the latter from many of the fast trains to avoid delaying such traing and consequently de- laying the more important malls, However, there is but a single rate of cof ation puid by the govern- ment to the railroads for all classes of mail 10 system of car-lot ship- ments of parcel post and magazine mail is day by day expanding, ship- nts of car lots from one point dircet to another without any inte mediate holding or loading and un- ne of the cars, Th means in the holding back of parcel post mail for a distant point or section for 24 hours and then instarces, zerous in tha 1ith day oclock in the kiven of the ation and the ng thercom, by wme newspa od Britain havin atir Jdency of said a nd piace of shing this order fn said New aaid Dns- Now m n SY. 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