Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-03-27
NOT FORGOTTEN.
POSTMASTER M'KENzIE'S AT
TENrIoN CALLED TO MORE
cARELEsSNESs IN THE
DELIVERY OF MAIL.


The KENTUCKIAN has not referred
for some time TO the management OF
the post-ofIice, and has only been
waiting to see what attention would
be paid to our previous articles, call
ing attention to needed improvements
In the office, before making any fur
ther suggestions. We know that
some people censure US, for our
course, but this cannot be helped,
and TO all such we would say that
our intention is not to misrepresent
Mr.. Mckenzie, but to direct our ef-
forts in the way of necessary i'm
provements which the people, whom
he serves, have right to expect.
That there is a great deal of mail
mixed at this Office no one denies, and
the same is substsntiated by facts.
The amount of time consumed in
getting letters delivered is unnecessa-
rily long in some cases, which greatly
inconvenience those TO whom they
are sent, and which neglect can only
be remedied by having competent
persons TO handle the mail, and those
who will exercise sufficient care to
have every piece of mail reach its
proper destination as speedily as pos
sible. We shall call attention TO
only few very bad blunders in this
issue, which seem almost inexcusable.
The first mentioned is that of a
policy mailed by Long, Garnett &
Co., In January, to the Hartford Ins.
Co., but they failed 10 put stamp on
the envelope. These gentlemen have
a lock box, and their printed card
was on the envelope. The letter
which could not be forwarded with
out postage, should have been put
into their lock box at once, but 1t was
held in the post-oflice for q long
while and finally sent to their Of
flee by hand some time in February.
In February Mrs. Moore, of this
oiiy, mailed some photographs TO
relatives in California and supposed
they had reached their destination
all right. She was somewhat sur
prised few days after by negro
boy bringing her The package, claim
ing 10 have found it in the refuse of
the post-ofiice. Inquiry was made
at the Office for the occasion of such
carelessness, and it was suggested
that the package was lost before il
was put into the Office, but when at
tention was called to the receiving
stamp no further evidence was nee
eSsary.
II. III. McCallen, a colored barber
who works at Marcus Young's shop,
got letter out of the office on We'd
nesday, Mar. 81, that had been
mailed in Elkhart, Ind, Feb. 4, and
received at this Office the same day,
having been detained here .nly As
days. The worst feature in this case
is that the clerk who delivered it
was so ashamed of its long detention,
that he took a pencil and tried to
blot out the receiving date at this
office, thinking that McCalIen would
probably be too ignorant TO detect it,
but he happened TO be little too
well posted. lie has always called
for his mail one or more times day,
aud as he is in business within three
blocks of the post -ofiice, it does seem
little strange it would require AS
lays to find his letter, which was on
. matter of important business.
The SoUTH KENTUcKIAN has had
nail to lay in the Office as long as
IA days without being delivered into
Is lock box.
We will not devote any more of
pace this issue to the enumeration
If different blunders, but will say
hat such as the above are not COM
non in well regulated post-ofiice,
md should be remedied. OF course
{ MI. Mckenzie thinks it all right
md proper, why, the people will just
rave to put up with it as best they
,an. Whenever a letter is put into
he mail, the government is paid to
properly and promptly deliver ii,
md it is the business ofthe post-mas-
er TO sec that such agreement is
,arried out.
We have had many complaints
rom the colored people, and it can
,e attributed to the cause that those
Who wait on them take too much for
granted, and just conclude that there
s no mail for the caller, without Civ
ng a careful search. Everyone
Who visits the office should be prop
,rly treated anu a search made for
lis mail, as well as receive polite and
courteous attention.
Now is as good time to improve as
my, and we hope Mr.. Mckenzie will
'ealize the fact and invent a remedy.
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