CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1913, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

LETTER-CARRIERS' GRIEVANCES XO THE KDIIOE. Sir, — It. is funny to read the icply the Ecurctary to tho Poht Office gave to jour curie&pondent in reference to the telesnaph ofiicoib 1 glie\uhec«. '1 ho Department makes the men «jut> lo bo always iv the wronm. lhero ib another Launch of the Service, the mnn of which arc treated with much less couitc:-y than the men referred to. It h the lKter-cairiois 1 staff — tho largest bianoh of the Service. Thes-e men gel some very haul knocks at timoi, and are politely told that if they don't like, they had better get out. jSow, that is uot the way to make a yood wnvicc The Department fhouJd try and pull with the men, and not agaiiibt them. The lc tier-camera' wolk in of a responsible nalurr, bctau'-e the men aro cent out on their walks with bngb o[ mail, on whir-h there io no checjt whatever. Tho Depaitnicnl can only tiust to tluir honesty to deliver the moils. There hio tho men that the public think far more of than tho heads of the Depaitment do. They; :irc biought back at night n\A early in tho morning to sort English mails, for whi'h work they receive no extra pay. Tho Depaitment docs not consider these men in the ica*t ; but, rather, puts them to all the inconvenience it can. Iho men aic oiten brought on an hour earlier when thore is no occasion for it. 1 hat means that they huvo to walk to tho oflire from their homes. (They don't get enough talking duiing 111' 1 <l:iy !) Al 'Clnif-tinjb limo the niiiiera hip ovei -worked and overloink'l. Of , umu ye, Jon tail't blame tic public, because they have to get thfir Loncjiponde'i'jo a Way; but Hip Di parlmcnt r-hottld «<st boys to help Ui'j men. Bui it will not do fo; if I hu i airier wanti> a boy he has to pay for him him: elf. Christmas week is lli't only wpf.-lj in tho year the cairieis uwko any ovuiliinc, and it might be ff inlcictl to tlio public to know that the men wop iiot paid that overLimo until the 301 hof January. The men in (he IfyX Otth'; »ifp paid their wages on the 23rd of December,, and the next pay day wa*. <jii the January, tc \W will t,u«.K> \vivf haid up tomo of the younger numbers of thy i.tjg were about the mt'ldk of January. What th<; Depaitm<:nt fhnuld ha%e done was In have pzii tlif; overtime about tire l&tli oi iri'f month. That would hato rv,<-i Hi". yjun?<;r members of the »ta!l, who, Uftf'jrtnnal'-ly. are not, overl»Hi']pfj';d v. iUi h'ts; caJaii"!, to havo a i'nilt <;-i>h U> !*^t them till pay day. 'i u<i Dtp^/tnj'ißl i% uoi off ''i ing in•iwtf.tA if> yowiz wrjfi in Die .Service it K". f .p li'AKtl «'}rtii they «llow them Ut »»i!Ji .xitmiX tor ibovl tlnce w««ekh wx tji *iz »übool ativ m'jWiy, vfhilf i'« UUt \)< hoM« tlicit c-. oitiin<3 tii'itv.r. . ■ • ■ I -*'n •Htiii.iz i\i'v tor th« ji'j«d of tJiK, (A^, 9\ -n ril au. tke m<- j • Sa m \ lh*'. WdhaJ'SH has a new Chief l > </ttma.4V.t, it m&y ha\c .«m<e effect.-* I mm, 'M. t ONB WHO "KNOWS. W«3liiigl«a, sth February.