The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-08-29
PosrAL IRREoUIARrr1Es,-The CON

POSTAL IRREaULARIrIEs.-Th com.
plants about the shameful manner in which
the postal service is performed Throughout
| this State are universal, loud and deep. We
| are in constant receipt of letters from sub.
| scribers grumbling about either the nOn-re-
ceipt altogether, or the very tardy receipt Of
their papers. The circulation Of every jour
nal in Nevada is seriously threatened BY the
present postal dereliction, and it is time that
some step should be taken to institute re-
form. Two days since we published an ar
ticle from the Winnemucca Argent which
shows that the most reprehen>ible official
negligence exists in the Postoffces along the
line Of the railroad. Yesterday we gave =
letter from Genoa stating that letters and
papers from Virginia are old and stale before
they reach their destination. By some out
rsgeous system of red tape, the Sacramento
papers, published LA miles from here,
are in receipt of their Eastern exchanges by
Overland sail it advance of ourselves.
The command at Fort Churchill, in view Of
the uncertainty of the postal service. has
detail of one two soldiers stationed here
for the sole purpose of expediting the mail
matter directed to the detachment. So we
might 20 on and enumerate indefinitely the
causes which the people of Nevada have for
complaint against negligent or incompetent
Tor both) officials who fail to carry out our
very complete and excellent mail system.
We have endured this sor of thing in silence
altogether too long, and we now intend to
try what virtue there is in Indignantly pro-
testing against the delinquencies of those
entrusted with the postal service. In the
first place we wish it understood that the peo-
pie of Virginia are entitled to the benefit of
their geographical position, and must be
served with their Eastern overland mails in
advance Of Sacramento. We are at least ten
hours nearer to the Atlantic centres than
that city, and have right to exact the ad
vantage in peiut of time over our California
If the fault is with the
Reno office, we demand that that Office shall
be everhauled, and its manager be required
to fulfil his duties with energy and dispatch. !
We shall accept no excuse as sufficient for |!
the delivery Of Eastern exchanges in this
city after their contents have appeared IN the |
Sacramento papers. There are no facilities
outside of the mails by which such hardness
IAN be properly accounted for. We are not
aware whether there is now a travelling pos
al agent whose duty it is to rectifv these
buses and shortcomings In the Pacific
States bnt if there be one, and he is acting
Inder the influence or authority Of the Post
master of San Francisco, We call upon Mr..
Perkins to send him this way. 1t is dis
grace IL the Department that mails should
Re strewn along the line of the railroad, and
hat they should be kept. undistributed or
urwarded, in offices for days after they have
,een received OF deposited. Such conduc,
IN the part of our Nevada Nasbys cannot be
90 severely denounced, and those who are
espon>ible for it should be peremptorily re-
moved, and men placed in their Offices who
Vi at least make an effort to perform their
uties. In the meantime We shall open our
olumns TO the individual complaints of
hn fha lfnln
4ct OF the p0stmasters of their respective
pcalities. We are determined to either bring
bout reform in the premises, or have bet
ar reasons than We have yet heard for the
of the United States mails in
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