Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1846-12-11
The Mails again.

The Mails again. t
Master, with the request that it may be " pub
lished in this weeks Free Press We are
good deal crowded. but here is the letter -
Editor ofMc Free Press:
SiR-In the last number of the Free Press, You pub
lish the complaints Of sudry of your subscribers that
they do not receive your paper in season by due course
OF mail.
TO satisfy h-m that the fault is not yours you say
the Free Press is regularly placed in the Office here
as the day Of publication arrives" lfby the day of
publication you the ddfe of the paper which IS
always on Friday, your statement will be right -.
But papers well as all other mail matter, leit at
this office on Friday cannot go by mail until Sdt"r-
day and on some routes not until 4uoaday following.
For instance the mail on the Northeastern route, as
is called goes from this office three times week VIZ
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at . O'Clock
A NJ. Those papers, therefore left in this office on
Friday. to GO on this route, VIZ to Essex, rco
underhil Wcsord, Fairfax Fletcher, Cambridge,
Johnson, Morrsiown. Hydepark, and so on to lras-
burgh and Derby, and that section OF the state can
not 20 from here by mail, until MONDAY hl3rhig ol
the next week and would not be likely to reach Derry
until 1ucsddy night when the paper would br nearly
a week old. And this would not be the FAULT OF the
post Offices nor OF the mails.
You, also, say, you have lust received another
remonstrnncc from your subscribers III Briipoft ana
south Of Ncrgcnnes on the Whitehall! stag" route
am informed the mail on that route lcnyes ngTgennSs
course, papers left in this Office on Eriday, would on
Saturday to Nergennes aud remain there tli Won
day, and without any fault OF the Post Offices or mails
Tie mail leaves here for St George, lilnesburgh,
Monkton Starks5oro, New Haven and Bristol every
day. except Tuesday and Friday at o'clock 7. NJ.
Consequently, papers leit here on Eriday, to go on
that route, viii on Saturday, 60 to iiinesouFgh and
remain there until the Monday following ..
Then for South hero, Grand Isle and North He
70, am informed leaves Milton for those places on
Friday and SO, OF course the papers for those places,
left in this office Oh E,idap 90 on saturday to Milton
and remain there til! the Friday following.
4, It ron atIIatlh
papers at this Office on Thursday III season Tor the
Friday mornings mail.
Your Willston correspondent, it seems informs you
II that "thc Sentinel never mis-t- while the Free Press
IS like an ntermttng pulse" For two years past,
n since have had charge OF the Post Office here, the
d, Sentinel has been left in the Office Thursdays and
most generally, before sundown and always in season
: to go by Friday mornings mail.
. very snia portion only, of the Gree Press is left
here on Thursdays, TO 90 by Frlay mornings mall
n and the remainder is usually brought in the after
noon crevcning of Friday The consequence Of fail
'e to 90, by Fridays mail must OF necessity follow
+ and that leaves many OF them. above stated 90
the week following And all this is fault OF the Post
Offices nor OF the nails
Youaso say 1t almost appears to us, that if the
"Post Master wonld let the papcrs alone they would
- "goto Wiiliston themselves
lean hardly persuade myselfthat you mean tn charge
+ ne with keeping back your papers, more especially i'll
, the absence Of facts and proofs to warrant it.
= That your papers are sometimes mlscarcd or
Is wrongly directed, is very possible but assure you
:; they always sent by the first mail after they
It But as You eXhort your subscribers to wait patiently
till next week, when You will tell them all you know
about 1t, viii wait patiently, also.
!. Respectfully, your Obedt. Scrvt
WIN. NOBLE.
:, The foregoing letter is one of the most extra
ordinary attacks upon the air that we have ever
seen. 1t has about as much reference to tic
matters complained of as it has to the newly.
discovered planet Of lie Verrcr. We published
last week. letters from our subscribers III Wood
. stock and '|Wisi0n, complaining that their pa.
" pers do not come regularly to hand In reply
to these omplaints" Mr. Noble takes occasion
:! to advertise the DAYS on which the mail depart,
on a variety OF other roates We have all pro-
per respect for the man, but the Post Ntstci
will please to take notice that we still consider
10 the Post Offices and the Mails in this poIk-rid
Il. den country to be rery miSeraL!y managed, ant
rs he will pardon us for saying that VIC look upoi
a his letter as rather transparent piece of gam
. mon. The letter of our correspondent: in vii
liston was dated on Monday, hco days after h,
slouid have received the Free Press ;and that o
- our correspondent in Woodstock was dated Mjr
teen days after the Free Press should have beer
- received. If the Post Master will he good enough
to let the post routes to Grand Isle & Derbv-lint
- alone for the present, and account for the ire
gularities c5mp}ajnei Of, he will hit the CASE
exactly. Our subscribers in Grand ISLE and il
Essex, Jericho, Undcrh. &c. &C." know
though it would appear that the Post Maste
NJ does not, that their papers are placed in the of
40 fec on "TAursdcy night" almost Invariably
o' and when we get any complaints from them W,
Wv will notify the post master in good time Ihes
;" constitute mainly the Every small portion onl
IL of the Free Press that is left here on Thur,
- day, to 60 BY Friday mornings mail" And O
these we have as yet made no complaints
~ 1t is in regard to the rrmqinasr" that ar
~ brought in on the afternoon or evening Of FIJI
VI day that the complaints are made. When til
VI post master will explain why it is that the rrc
Press of the 18th November had not rcachc
Woodstock on the 27h, and that of the 27
had not reached Williston, miles from Bur
he lingon, on the lst of December, i, will be tim
of to talk Of other matters.
mt But we invite the attention of the Post Mastc
he to the following:
m P o. Middlcbury, Vt. Dec 9Th 1916
III D. w. G, CLARKE, Esq.
g. The Free Press OF last week has not been re
Q ccyed AT this office
IS The subscribers to the F. p request me to nforr
OF YOU and have You send the missing papers
40 am, sir respectfully
~ d 5 WlIHERBY, Asst PM
We And to the following;
-. ~, Orwell Dec. g. 1916.
no h" ia he my pen in hand to inform you" that YOU
paper does not reach your subscribers in this poc
IT, nor any where else ON this mail route South OF Vel