Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Post-Office, the late mail was not delivered in the Yard during the early part of the week, although Mr. Danforth has had the entries lighted early in the evening ever since Thanksgiving; but on Wednesday the Superintendent at the Post-Office, having the fullest assurance that "the carrier's way was made bright," sent the evening mail to the Yard, much to the satisfaction of all concerned. We wish to thank both the Bursar and the Superintendent for their courtesy in listening to our wishes, and their consideration in carrying them...
...Post-Office Department are willing and anxious to accommodate the students, who have always been very gentlemanly in all their transactions with this office, by giving them equal mail facilities with townspeople, and if the carrier's way can be made bright, it will afford me great pleasure to institute a fourth delivery of mail in the College Yard at once...
GENTLEMEN, - In reply to the inquiry "Why are not students' letters delivered at 5.30 P. M. the same as citizens'?" I would answer that it is impossible at that hour for the carrier to find his way through the dark halls, and Mr. Danforth says he is not willing to employ a janitor for the purpose of lighting the gas, which is now used by students only as they require, unless some greater demand is made than now exists...
THERE is, as the last Advocate states, a carrier's delivery of mail at 5.30 P. M., but unfortunately the college mail is not included in this delivery...
...necessary that students rooming in the College buildings should have letter-box plates on the doors of their rooms, so that their letters can be delivered. The letter-box plates can be obtained from the College letter-carrier for sixty cents each, and they will be put on free of expense by the College carpenter. According to postal regulations, no letters will be delivered under the doors of the rooms after this date without a written order...