Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-03-17
AS TO MEXICAN MAIL.
Other Causes Than Poor Addresses Mu'i
Explain the Grievance.
Ea.lor nc,,re. Ne.ee

Ei.iOr Deere, NoUG
/ have perusei the letter written by
Miles p. R1mnpy. Of Colonia Junfez.
chihuahua, Mexico, OF the 9Th ult.
and published IN the last issue Of the
SEutWtEKLY NEWS, and for one |
10 not think the statement altogether
correct, that "lf people 10 Utah will
be more particular In writing correctly
the addresses on their letters there will
not he 20 much complaint about the
loss VI letters In Mexico" There afo
other and more serious charges than
this.
For the past three yenrs / have on.
dcavufed 10 keep up correspondence
at the above mentioned place. Coca.
slonnlly letter has found Us way
there, but many failed 10 reach theif
destination, aud net for want Of being
plainly directed, either Letters con.
tanning money, sent ut the time 90
many were iu destitute circumstances,
never reached th0su 20 whom they
were sont, AMI / but express the
statements N Othurf; not letters alone,
containing money, have fliloj, Tut
packages Of more ur lees value, fow
sheets NJ note paper, valuable altman.
ace, calendars, Hover seeds, etc, etc,
have failed TO reach them, aud each
time the usual United Siutos postage
has been paid ut the mailit x eiilcs.
am not alone Ia this matter. know
" others whose ffieuus also had money
sent them, aud Otherwise; their letters
failed 10 reach Juatvz; bot when th0so
friends lived IN Utih's u Xie the Letters
reached tuUm every Time. me address
was quite plain for Uvah'e pustmnaiefs.
Now comes the question, what other
causUs are there that 90 much mail
matter sent from Utah b NJ Nico fails
10 reach turm' II such leakage was
practIccd IN Utah the posloiilce depart.
ment ut Nishi gtOu would soon ilnd
II and stop H. The following was
taken from u Mexican paper, aud may
explain the matter litlle farther;
r.srOFriCEs IS MEXICO.
Speaking Of postollcrs, n you 20
iGto one almost any here in tho land
u "Di0s uf LibrTiud" aud ash boz
English for lcttof, the obliging post.
master or o.c Of biz deputies viii toss
out tho whole stock audftssUl g.
foreign NAMES, whether II bo y peel, or
bushel, anu allow you 10 select for
yourself, quite Indifferent NJ 10 whelh.
a. you c0uiinc yourself 10 your own VI
other peoples mail. Although my
c0uuirymrn are prIyefbially honest,
that 10 allowing rather too much laii.
tudc. or has sometimes ttanspifed, both
in matters OF love aud luCfU. / notice
they never DO that way with any but
Foreigners letter., the Mtxicaus them.
selves being more carefully served
from piguOu.h0leH alphabetically NJ.
ranged. whether this distinction II
MAZE becuusn they arc unwilling 10
take extra trouble Tor "ouuije bar
batians, nOT because they know too Dwell
theit own litlle prcul.afttits, is matter
Of conjecture. The laws against open.
Ing other pcopls's letters arc even mole
severe IN Mexico than Ia the United
States, but they nro enforced only up
those Of Mexican birth, and American
need expect no redress mere i1r wrongs
Of any Kind, no matter how serious.
AlaI Nit Elilir, must tho on.
repeated statement slill hang on,
"NOut cause ~ Just but we eau 10
nothing for your" Yours vefy res.
pectiully, JuItS l.. BENCu,
MANTi, Utah, March 10, 1894.