Evening journal., 1891-01-26
INSULT TO injury.
Postmaster ID. n. stewart Puts Question
20 the Extnlpg LaurnnI


to the Evening journal.
The poor service afforded by the viii
mington post Office has received much
space in the newspapers. i. Is known bv
expari ence W nearly every merchant in
the city. Complaints have been made
oaily that mail was lost or improperly
delivered
The EVENING JOURNAL has stood with
the people IN endeavoring to have the
service improved. Continued publication
or complaints mas had no effect Personal
remonstrance has been OF no avail. The
errors, mistakes and complaints do not
diminish. Among the greatest sufferers
oy this lack OF system or ability ia hand :
ling the malls have been the newspapers.
The EVENING JOURNAL has lost money
IN the mails. The money was sent. Il
was never delivered. Someone was IA
blame. but neither the guilty person nor
the money has never been found.
Papers mailed TO this Office have been
placed IN the boxes Of other newspapsrs
Papers of contemporaries have been
placed in the EVENING JOURNAL boy
Correspondence and other important LET
ters have gone astray. An Of these things
have not happened once only. but fire.
InH
time. They did not happen under either
Swiggett's or Taylor's administration Of
the post office. The fault ia nearly eyery
instance has been in the post Office Of this
city. The mails are scarcely ever In the
boxes on time. There is delay inyari-
ably
In the face Of such grievances. Post.
master Daniel Il. Stewart. under whose
administration they have existed. writes
70 the EVENING JOURNAL under date of
January %, as follows
BNITED STATES PosT OFFICE.
WILMINGTON, Del, Jan. 90, 1891.
EVENING JOURNAL
The Every Evening have made com
plant OF some of their mail directed
Gazette aud Journal" and journal
being put in your mail az this office, aud
hasd us an envelope addressed Gazette
and Journal marked Not EVENING
Journal" showing that 1t had been re
turned from your office. We desire to
avoid these errors as far as possible; they
also hand US postal card complaining OF
money (9l COY sent nearly two months
ago not having been acknowledged and
say they did not receive It. We hand
you the postal. Please look into the mat
Ter. There is possibility that this may
have been received by you and credited to
the party in error Please return papers
Very respectfully,
b. F. STEWART, P. NJ.
Careful reading OF the latter part Of
this letter will show that the writer
makes the implication that the EVENING
JOURNAL received the money and kept ii.
This paper did not receive any letter
from the person mentioned Il not only
did not receive money that did not belong
70 II, but failed to receivs money that did
belong to IL. The letter WAS addressed
To the Gazette and Journal" which Is
the weekly edition OF another paner. and
it is the business of the post office to
know it
Whose fault was it If it got to the
EVENING JOURNAL officer
This paper could not have stolen the
letter from the post office
The man who sent his snbscription to
the Gszstte and Journal and heard
nothing from il, wrote q postal card to
the same address inquirlng why the
money had not been credited to him
That postal card was put III the EVENING
JOURNAL box We knew ID was not for
rs and wrote on 10 Not EVENING
JOURNAL; try Every Evening" and
returned il to the post Office as the letter
had been returned
On the twenty first Of the month a
letter addressed 10 the Gazette and Jour
nal came to this office II was returned
unopened to the post Office to be delivered
properly
The letters Of the EVENING JOURNAL
have been delivered 10 other places
opened before being properly delivered.
Whose fault is that?
Il is certainly surprising in the light
of the Developments of mismanagement
at the post Office that Mr. Stewart should
attempt to shift the blame for bis forces
mistakes on third party. II he is in
competent to manage the office he had
better resign and give some one who can
run it properly a chance.