New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-25
THE CITY PosToFFIcE-wHAT IS IT FOR

To NE Educ, q ne N. Y Trbua@
S,e: feel so indignant at our postal arrangements
that hardly know in what language To express Myself
As ,ou are nov earnestly laboring for reform OF this
outrageous and s1ailga Government Arrangement ior
transmitting the letters of the people allow m- 70 or7hy
state nv n series Having chld-sn only chhd-uhier
caI physician for three four weeks he recommend
I'd A. sst resort that the child must have fresh mountain
air or die On Monos, ii, L. my wife ehud ana servant
w.r. DISPATCHED to New MILFORD, Conn jour AMI a nay
49,, nv r.ilro ad from this City On Wednesday morning
Juy 49, my wife to that the medlcine previously
prescribed by ply scian had not produced e u7seu
and prou result anxiOuy asking what snoud De done
This letter which equally aD1hiusy expected on
Wednesday evening old not rea n me TIL Friday evening
Immediately ssoertaned what mast be done sat dom
and wrote TO my wife ard next morning at q CLOCK gas
AZ the Post Office But 10 cou mol gel u-th- g<'-s
w,r- al chained and 10, ktd waiteh tai oc'c Fnen
was olo thai the gates not To- be opened un sud
Immediate, set about getting H. somthoF' DOTTED
into the newspa per delivery departn en oggnH NAV some
ON. would have the etir, mailed Do you think x! 1t
done Instead OF that, got curses, for my pns or tor
t.ng such fool AZ to nt:uue III 10. wrong box men
h, accident got around the Liberty / soc Z" the Io,
ce-up the stairs-apd the Ollie ~ 1si-s clock
Here ibi med that he mail for Nv Mht "a hsd lot
gone al O'Clock When said /. will his letter t,h
n. a.spston " Thu mail does not gp Ngs'n I'll Monday
morning. And sure enough. on Thursday moFanS' Juy
u received 4 second letter from my wife ssuns thN sac
bad rec@ived my letter Of Friday night on Monday even
pc making days nter' Al since she Vi urs written me-
hir. obtsneo ny answer l. THIS N" enough 10 et
uguh every particle OF aencs, aud excite our JUST aad
,rr,,er ISDieNATG,Si
Ne Yort July p 1855
TIE writer OF the above gives his name aud number
in this City and personally assures us that every word
Of this statement is true. We repeal the question
what il the Post Office for II VAS thought by son-,
that in our article in which pictured he distress OF
the parents over their dead boy, We had coored II too
high What think they of this almost exact coun-
terpart, actually occurring w'sn fe" days past IN
this CITY. De they want any more evidence OF the old
fos,jsn Of the whole Post. Office Department Here
suffering the agony Of father, whose absent
child j, d, ing boted, barred aud chained Gus OF the
Post Office. until the mail is made up add sent away
which be was SO naturally anxious should take his letter
Can ANYTHING be more annoying insulting and Useless to
those who need mail facilities, than such Post Ohce
VIII ANYBODY on earth tell this suffering community
ub, the Post Office ever closed and most particular
y Why it is kept bolted against all outsiders untu or
o'clock in the morning. Can anybody tell aconlna'
pity that ii not patiently suffer much longer whether
there any hope of reform. and if there ' wne hef II
:, IN beneft Ills gene rhtOn OF the DeXt'