p. 16 | Sunday Postal Work

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 7, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 14.

Sunday Postal Work

First Assistant Postmaster-General Heath, in a letter on the policy of the Post-office Department respecting Sunday work, says that the present administration has no rule or regulation on this subject that did not exist under the two previous administrations. The custom then, and the custom now, is to consider each case by itself. No general rule can be applied to post-offices without regard to surrounding conditions. In some instances it would be inconvenient, he says, “to the proper conduct of the business of the postal service to deprive it of any Sunday labor in post-offices or to discontinue mail service on railroads.” It has been his rule, he says, so far as possible, to favor the closing of post-offices on Sunday, when it appears that the public convenience does not require them to be kept open on that day. Where post-offices are kept open on Sunday, postmasters are instructed not to keep them open during the hours of public worship, and that they need to be kept open for one hour only during the entire day.—New York Independent.