The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-06
Posi- once POINTS.
THURSDAY, July 30.
Two circulars and two letters dropped
i'm without stamps.

THURSDAY, july -.
Two circulars and two letters dropped
in without stamps.
dressed 10 L. ID. Luther. Surprising il
10 he for w. Il. Luther, it went in his
box and was opened by him. Returned
by Mr.. L., with statement it was not foI
him. and he knew nothing about it. 1t
WAS finally concluded to try Luther ID.
Jacobs, who turned out To he the person
the letter was intended for. Had il gone
to the dead letter office, the Wichita fel-
low would have ravcd about the care
lessness of the post office people.
She looked uncommonly handsome
this morning as she galloped up to the
stamp window, and as the clerk passed
stamps" he felt his heart go to pieces in
several places. But, Oh! horrors! as
she was turning to go she stopped, and
those fatal words which have troubled
the slumbers and rung in the ears of
postmasters and clerks for months and
years, came floating from her dainty
lips: "Will you give me my mail? for
got my key"
FRIDAY, July 30.
Will the lady who put postal card
in the box to-day addressed to Maryan
county, please inform US of its location.
II the individual who put in papers
for Canada and California this morning
without stamps will call and put them
on, his papers will not lay in the office
as dead matter. He may also save him
self the trouble of "cussing" the care
less post Office department.
The popular belief that all postal cards
are read by the postmaster or clerks, or
both, Is to some extent untrue. We have
sold about 12O, 1000 cards in the last year.
and any one can see that it would be
impossible to read them all. Only
those addressed in female hand attract
close attention.
Another letter arrived today address
ed to Emporia, Illinois. This one came
from the dead letter office. Some peo-
pie "dowA east think there is no country
further west than Illinois. They have
read about Emporia-what II booming
town il is, and so on, and think it must
be somewhere in Illinois.
SATURDAY, June 81.
OF course we will put il in the Postal
Points," friend c. The sole object of
the points" was, for n few days, To call
public attention to the great degree of
carelessRess which exists in the mailing
of letters and papers, with the hope OF
securing more care. We do not wish to
shield the post office people from blame
when they make ineXcusable mistakes.
Last night one of the regular clerks hav-
ing "leavc of absence" and another be-
ing ut his house ON account of sickness,
the three remaining were called upon
To open the mai, and 10 be in an I'M
usual hurry in handling letters. One
letter and one circular were put in the
wrong box. We have written up these
notes for eight days and have made note
of thirty three bona tide mistakes made
by people in directing and mailing let
tiers, cards and papers, and in the eight
days the above recorded mistake on the
part of the Office is the only bona tide
one that has come to our notice. That
will do pretty well-one in the office to
thirty three outside. We have before as
serted in these columns that two-thirtls
of the errors occurring in the handling
of mail matter, were made by the people.
BY actual count at this Office, this asser-
ton Is more than proven.