Tombstone weekly epitaph., 1882-07-29
TOMBSTONE PosTOFFICE.

n Charges of Carelessness and Irregu-
 laritfes in the Transmission and
 Delivery of Malls.
 Ever since the appointment of Post- master Brooks frequent complaints have been made to the EPITAPH, ot carelessness or incompetency in the transmission and distribution of malls. While the office was in temporary quarters, after the fire, these shortcomings were partially excused in consequence of lack of room and facilities, but now that the office is in per- manent quarters, and MT. Brooks familiar. ized with the work, people are not inclined to be SO lenient. There is hardly doubt but grave abuses exist, some of it being the result of gross carelessness and in- efficiency, while part may be at trlbuted to pure cussedness. Scarcely day passes but we receive com. plaints from subscribers Tn the county towns, about the irregularity with which the EPITAPH is received. Sometimes the paper is not received for three or four days, and then several arrive at once. MT. Brooks lays the blame on the country post masters, but an investigation will not bear him out the fault is in the Tombstone of flee and it can be proven. Letters for Charleston, H., are invariably sent to Charleston, Arizona, and letters have been received at the latter place after making trip to Illinois and back.
 A prominent business man of Benson, in conversation with an EPITAPH man, Sunday evening, said that he had business connections with firm in this city and correspondence passed back and forth frequently. Some- times It taKe letter three days to get to Benson, and not unfrequently have letters lain in the office here for two days without being delivered. The Benson gentleman also remarked that complaint was general in his town about the slovenly manner in which the mail from this city arrives. The same cry comes from Contention and oth- CT adjacent towns, and there is no doubt but there is good cause for it. These are examples of the insfflciency, now for the cussedness. On the 21st inst. new rules were put in force by the P o. department, requiring second class mail matter to be prepaid. Sunday morning, the mailing clerk of the EPITAPH, went to the postoffice to pay the postage on our outgoing mail, but could not get one of the clerks to answer him, though he plainly heard them walking inside the partition. Later in the day MT. Brooks was informed by the clerk that he had discovered the EPITAPH mail bag. and inquired why it had not been forwarded, and was in- formed that the new rules were in oper- ation, that the EPITAPH had been picking at him, and the boys were mad and did not propose to show any favors to this oIflce He said the county mail had been duly forwarded. On the evening lof Sunday Mir. Hausuer, the Charleston news agent, reached the city, and in company with him the book-keeper went to the pOstoffice to make certain whether the Charleston papers had been forwarded, as Mir. Hausuer would take them out if they were not. The red-headed rooster who blinks through the delivery window reasserted that all county mall, including Charleston, had been sent. Yesterday the following letter from the gentleman in question was received:
 CHARLESTON, July 23rd.
 EPITAPH PUBLISHING Co.-We did not receive any papers to-day, although the postmaster at Tombstone, or his clerk in formed Mr. Hudson in my presence that they were duly forwarded. Either the bundle was lost or the postoffice officials are liars. Respectfully,
 R. HAUsUER
 Yesterdays post also brought the follow ing epistles:
 RUSSELL CITY, July 23, 1882.
 EDITOR OF EPlTAPH.-Sir; 1 sent $500 by MT. Glass on the 18th instant, for the daily, and have not received a copy as yet. You will please see to it and oblige,
 Yours, WM. H, GORDON,
 Summit Station, Cochise Co.,, A. T.
 RUSSELL CITY, July 23, 1882.
 MIR. SAMUEL PURDY-SIR: I have been subscribing for the daily for little over a month and have not received more than half the copies, and they are from three to four days behind. Please send me regu- lar and oblige Yours,
 GEORGE JULIAN.
 It is hardly necessary to state that these papers are promptly and regularly mailed, and thus being not received by the parties to whom they are addressed is solely the fault of the postoflice MT. Brooks has been frequently demonstrated with for his carelessness and admonished to pay a little more attention to his bushes. On one occasion he informed the editor of the EPITAPH that he would discharge his present force as soon as he got the run of things himself On that occasion he ad- mitted their inefaciency, and said com plaints were coming in all around. He is trying to shift the blame on the country postmasters, but that won't do. From all we can hear, the Charleston, Contention and Benson postmasters understand their business, and pay proper attention to the details of their offices. If Brooks don't att tend to his duties more strictly, renon-