MR. PATRICK O'BRIENI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, what are the regulations governing the granting of good conduct stripes and increments to unestablished postmen doing full time duty, and who are officially known as postmen "blocking" established appointments?
§ MR. HANBURYThe regulations under which good conduct stripes are awarded to established postmen apply to unestablished postmen doing a full day's work. One good conduct stripe is given as the reward of each period of five years' unblemished service. Unestablished postmen whose conduct and character are good, and who perform a full duty, as a rule receive an increment every two years up to within one increment from the maximum of the scale of the established postmen working from the same office 841 and performing similar duties. Such increments, however, are given as an act of grace, no unestablished postman having a claim to a regular increment.