The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-04-30

II always affords us pleasure TO say
good word for the Post once Department when
we can conscentiously do 40, and a recent In
stance OF the puns taken by its officers to trace
out and remedy n reported irreruariiy In the
delivery OF THE Sun to subscriber, shows In
striking light the efficiency OF the system which
governs tho operations Of tho postal service.
This subscriber whose paper was addressed to
the U. 8. s. Tallapoosa, Navy Yard, Washinc'o on,
wrote, March II, that the two last numbers Of
THE 81 then due had not been received, and
1t CURED the reason. His letter was referred to
Mr.. JAMES, the courteous and EN- lent city Post
master, for an answer Mr.. JAMES, March Is.
referred the matter to the Postmaster at Wash
ington, with request that fun and
special inquiry should be made into the
matter, and from that once a report was re-
ceived dated March 10, that THE Sun for the
complaining subscriber was In the package every
day, and regularly sent to the navy yard. On
March IL a tabulated statement OF the time Of
q e arrival at the New York Post Onico Of
THE suns mails every day, from the first Of the
month, was forwarded to the publisher for bis
Information, and on March q the superintendent
OF Inc SUN mailing department reported to the
Postmaster that by reference to the record FUR
nished by the latter It at peared that the matter
for limited mail had been delivered At the Post
month. TITUS far no great apparent progress
had been made in the work OF finding cut WHY
our subscriber did not get lis SUN regularly tut
In reality the ,cope Of investigatiOn necessary to
pursue had been greatly narrowed. On March
q the case was put into tho hands u MIR. II. G..
JACKSON, Superintendent Of Railway Mail Tr.rs.
portatiun, with the request that he should cause
inquiry to DC made. to ascc. TAIN II possible, the
cause Of tie irresularity complained II, It being
suggested that It might occur with the clerks Of
the limited mail line and MIR. JACKSON, in COM
plancc With this req sest, pursued the nvestlea-
/ ton with such success IS not Only to com-
! pletely cxuncrate the clerks VI the limited mail
line from suspicion, but also To get a lucid and
sa -factory explanation OF the whole mystery,
This explanation came in the form " "a letter
fr.m the Superintendent Of the Washington
CITY Posi- once, ssed to NrJAcKsoN, under
date Of March ~ which conclude. as follows
. The paper alluded to received regularly at this
chlcc pAceu m The navy yard boz, and given 10
tie me s,h.,r' "na '' r. u "a" HYfo' on my nhd Du.
~ We 1m,,rs Ot th' >ytv f.ai J.. sri9rs 'heJ 'ond
| w. T. TvrPiN, supt aslhngton cry 7. o."
As no further compl lat has been received
from the crested subscriber, II IL to he rrr-
sumed that he now receives lis Sun regularly
and that the officers OF ito navy yard either
levy ON somebf dy clscs newspaper, or them.
selves nay for tho pleasure Of reading The SuN
| Every cne must admire the close attention tc
the most minute Diet lis Of the service shown By
the Post Ofice iii rials In this instance but On,
cannot help wondering how 1t is that with sucr
an effective ma 'hiuery for tracing out irregu
| larities, postmastcr-Gcneral JEWELL has moi
had greater success in bringing To account thu
rascals Of the great Post Ring who have swim
died the Government out of millions sine,
GRANT has been In power, hy means OF straw
bios and other fraudulent devices.