Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-28
Of the Postal Service.


Generalization OF the Postal Service
When the present Administration came
into power the United States had one Of
the best conducted postal systems in the
world. The order, regularity, and eiiicien-
cy with which the service was conducted
were so apparent "a To be generally adj
mitted by all, and by none more than by
the business men. The Encouragement
and disorder of which the New England
public have complained 80 much of late,
seem to be equally obvious in other sec
tions Of the country. The following from
Democratic, Republican, and neutral pa
pers strongly attest to what extent the
postal service has become demoralized I'M
der the direction of the officials who came
10 their places with the high professions
of wishing to reform the civil service.
Richmond Virginian (Dem.)
1t seems that the more trains We have the
worse our mails get.
Virginia City Enterprise (Rep.).
There is a universal howl concerning the
almost complete ruin of the country's mail
service By the Democratic schemcrs in Wash
ington.
St Paul Despatch (Rep.).
The postal service between this city and
Eastern points as we'll az between the city and
the interior towns of the State is, if anything,
worse than it has ever been before.
[Cleveland Leader )Rep.).
The inefiiciency of the postal service under
this Democratic reform administration has
become almost proverbal. Complaints pour
in from all parts of the country and from all
classes of society.
Jacksonyille Fla, Times Dem
That there has been u decrease of efficiency
in the postal service arising from some cause,
no one who has occasion to use the mails I'M
der circumstances in which promptitude and
regularity of service are essential will deny.
Boston Herald DEM.
From the statements of opinion which have
been published coming from number of
prominent Boston business men, il is evident
that a strong feeling exists in the mercantile
circles of this city tina; a great improvement
should be made in our post-otice facilities.
Boston Journal Rep.
The business men of indianapolis are 50
Disguised with the postal service in their city
that they have begun to abandon it and to use
the express and telegraph for all important
correspondence.
New York Bralstreets Ind. J.
There is wide room for Improvement in the
efficiency of the postal service, and that not
only in the West and South. hut in other
sections also Some journal, in the South
and West, while demanding an increase of
efficiency in their sections before reduction
of rates is made seem to thuk that the East
10 satisfied with its service, since it asks for
reduction of rates. The reverse is the case,
Take for example the case of New England.
The condition of things there is shown in the
petition to the Postmaster General, prepared
early last month by tire Boston Merchants
Association
Chicago News tClcye. Ind. y.
Postmaster S Corning Judd has kindly
informed the public through the Daily News
that he alone is responsible for the way the
Chicago post-ofiicc is conducted. Possibly
to this sudden change can be attributed the
blunders committed almost every hour in the
day in one or more of the post-oihce depart
ments. Complaints are pouring in to the
Daily News to such an extent that the matter
is becoming quite alarming.
Greensboro, n. c., North State Rep
Senator Plumb is after the mail service in
the Southern States. He saws it is bad. II
he could come in contact with some of its
hlunders he would have something more than
a speech to make We received Il Philadel-
phia Press Monday which had been on the
road three weeks. and there was not mark
on it.
Detroit Tribune (Rcp.)
There never was time when there were
so many complaints as there are now of al
irregular and inefficient postal service. These
complaints have been voiced in the United
States Senate; they are heard from business
men and appear in the newspapers of both
parties in many states
Utica Herald (Rep.)l
The New Orleans Times Democrat, Dem,
complains loud and bitterly of the shiftless
and deficient service, and its columns carry
letters of complaint from various points in
the South. From far Western Idaho the
chorus is ,akenup by the statesman, of Boise
These statements of facts and the general
tone of these newspapers, representing
such wide extent of country, show
clearly and Enthusiastically that the public
sentiment on the subject is no mere crea.
ton of partisan prejudice, hut that 1t rests
on large aggregation of real facts.