Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-04-12

deposited in the San Francisco office at |
noon to depart by the $50 mail. The ex-
pectant recipient Of the letter finds that it
is not in the 7:30 mail, but he receives
other letters from San Francisco that were
deposited as late as or P. NJ. He gives
up an evenings engagement in order to
visit the Postoffice at 10 P. NJ. in hope
that the expected important letter will
arrive by the Oregon Express, but he is
again disappointed, though he receives
letters by the train mailed as late as 4:30
p NJ, as evidenced by the postmark. Dis
appointed, but still hopeful, he visits the
Postotfice at / o'clock in the morning and
finds that his expected letter has at last
arrived by the train that reaches here
about midnight, bound overland, and
which left San Francisco at r. NJ. The
postmark clearly shows that the letter
was mailed, as his correspondent advised,
in ample time for the $50 P. NJ. mail.
| 1t tsometimes happens that mail matter
cisco at noon is sent around by way of
| Stockton, and does not arrive here until
| half-past two in the afternoon. 1t not in
/ frequently happens that letters mailed in
San Francisco for this city never reach
! the Postofice in Sacramento The in
: stances Of delayed matter, such as recited
above, are not few-if they were they
/ might be excused-they are more than
many, for they constitute the rule.
| The result is that the midnight mail, in
stead OF being a convenience, is an abso-
j lutte nuisance, since it requires people ex-
/ pecting mail matter requiring immediate
attention to sacrifice the better portion of
/ the night in sleepless watching and ab-
! sence from their homes. There can be no
/ question whatever that the trouble lies
with the incompetent postal clerks in San
! Francisco. 1t would seem as if the clerks
in the San Francisco Office bundle the Sac
ramento mail together and send it on
when they have nothing else to do, con-
soling themselves with the reflection that
it is time enough for the people of Sacra-
mento TO receive their mail matter if they
get it within twenty -four hours They
seem to have no conception of the purpose
of maintaining mail route with three
distinct evening mails. If the system of
! the San Francisco Office is to be continued
our people should at once petition the
! Washington department to abandon the
two late mails in order to compel the San
| Francisco clerks to send on the Saera-
mento matter by the early train.
] AS matters are, great annoyance is
occasioned our people and certainty about
! business engagements and the receipt of
, letters is destroyed. Some time ago a
complainant was advised by postal Off
cial to have his correspondents in San
Francisco indorse his letters Forward by
the $50 train, sure" in the hope to secure
compliance on the part of the San Fran
cisco office. The plan was adopted, and
in every instance thereafter the indorsed
! letters were held until the midnight mail,
as if the San Francisco mailing clerks re-
sented the direction and proposed to teach
the people of Sacramento that they would
send the mails when in their good pleasure
they wished to-
The attention of Postmaster Bryan is
called to this grievance. 1t is one of no
small moment, but of grave Importance.
He will certainly not consider it trivial
when he is assured that because of the
evil specified serious losses in business
have been suffered here, and domestic COM
munications, involving life and death,