The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-10-03

enough toenable our business men TO receive |
their letters and to answer them by return Of
mail. We also desire TO say we have receiv-
ed such accommodation as we thought we had
right to lay claim 10 from our present Post
master, others, however, Of both political par
ties, we have heard complain bitterly Of the
decisions Of the present incumbent, which they
pronounced wrong and ruinous to their In,
terest. We think the Postofice should be /
for the mmodation of the Public and
so conducted, the public, and our business men
especially, must suffer.
To the Editors of the Journal:
GENTLEMEN: am not in the habit of writing
communications for newspapers, and therefore
trust, as this one is intended to call the public
to the great abuses prac,ised upon them by the
present incumbent of the Post Office in this
City, you will freely give it an insertion.
will state some of the abuses as practised
there: 1t is we'll known, our mails at best are
very irregular, and at the low stage of the river
at this time, we receive a weekly mail in place
of tri-weekly; when the mails do arrive it is
expected that the citizens and the business
men more especially, are DESTROYS of receiving
their advices, and to that end crowd around
the Post Office. expecting TO be waited upon,
if not politely, at least to receive that portion
of the mail coming to them. About week
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river, at precisely seven o'clock, p. M; short
ly afterward the Vincennes mail also arrived;
u few gentlemen went TO the Post Office, ex-
pecting it would be opened for the delivery of
the mail, and what was their surprise when
they were told TO call in the morning, as the
Office would not be opened that night. Those
gentlemen lid not have outside Boxes, with q
key in their pocket, SO that they could get their
letters and newspa pers, as some Others have,
and of course were compelled, though re!uc-
family, to 90 without being waited upon. Al
low me, MIR, Editor, 10 say few words in
relation to the boxes in our Office; person TO
get the mail matter, is compelled to have an
inside box, 70 I which he pays one dollar pei
annum quarterly, N advance; box outside
with lock and key. for which he has TO pay
two dollars quarterly in advance. You perceive
at once the advantage the holders of such boxes
have over those of their more unfortunate neigh
bors, who are either unable, or unwilling &c
nav such Bonus for such favors; and would
respectfully ask, into whose pockets the pro-
leeds of those boxes 60; think, for my part
liz don't 60 into the Treasury of the Department
but otherwise into the pockets of the present
incumbent; and would further ask, is there
any necessity for those boxes. il the Office wal
properly attended. In former times, when th'
business of the office was much less than al tn,
present time, il was kept open for the accomo
dation of the public, on the arrival Of mails, ,
sufficient time for their delivery, and certainl!
when the Northern mail was made up to 60 b.
Vincennes, the Office was always open until
o'clock, p M; now, mail or no mail, the OF
. fee is closed at shutdown, and if a mail arrive
on Sunday, as it did on last Sunday, just a
half past two o'clock, p. M, we told tina
u the Office will be open at 5 o'clock, coupled
with the insulting remark, that "the Postmas
ter has as much right to go to Church, as any
body else. This right to the Postmaster, nj
man will deny, but do say, that. that mail ar
rived in time TO allow Of its being assorted ant
delivered before the hour of Church meeting
!, which is from three 10 quarter past three il
. The afternoon would now ask, is this tn
4 manner in which the duties Of this Office ough
:. to be attended to, for the accommodation o
:, the citizens; and is this the manner in whic
the former incumbent, Mr.. Chute, acted il
!, tina, de apartment; far. very far from it. hav
known him 10 be nearly at his house and NEE
?, man from the country, and return, yes re
:. turn with him TO the Office and deliver to hin
his newspapers OF letters; how is the case now
;. liza country man calls at the Office at an hou
when he thinks the Office ought to be opened
our supercilious and punctilious Postmaste
J. tells him that the hour has not yet arrived, an
that he pays no attention to knocking at III
ldoor. | would ask, is there no other Demo
crat in this city, who would be likely TO max
a better officer-I am convinced there is non
twoulJ. make a worse one, and call upon IN