The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-05-18
Simply Rotten!
Is the Management of the Post ONCE
at Logan.


making public the rottenness of the
management of the post Office of our
town, and were content to bear the
Inconvenience OF missent and mis-
carried mail from time to time
without other than notifying the
postal officials Of our grievance, but
it has come to such pass that for
bearance ceases to be virtue. We
have been almost necessarily both
cred, hampered and wronged in our
mail delivery, ever since the pres
ent management has been in pow
er. Some weeks ago we certified
one of tho common cases into the
headquarters, at Cincinnati, they
Investigated, and placed The blame,
but little better mas been the nc
cused since.
One Blosser, at Bremen, had not
received his paper for months, al
though we had been sending him
our paper twice week, regularly.
He wrote us to this effect and we
certified same.
-Four weeks ago we received an
order from Geo. Schaal, of Ilesboro,
for horse bills, to he printed and
mailed to him on Tuesday of that
week at llesboro, nine miles from
here, with direct mail route. We
got them ready, addressed them
carefully ana took them to our post
office. Postmaster Green, himself,
fixed the price of postage on the
package, and we paid the price.
The assistent clerk, by our request,
said the package would be sure to
go in that days mail. Mr.. Schaal
came in town few days afterward
and claimed he had never received
his bills, and was very much agra
waited, as he should have been. We
went to our post Office and they
knew nothing Of them. A week la.
ter we wrote to the post master at
Ilesboro, and he answered saying
no such package had ever come to
his post Office. We reported same
to Postmaster Green here and he
said he would look the matter up
1t has been four weeks now since
those bills were mailed, and their
whereabouts still remain a mys-
terry. In the meantime we are out
the price of our printing and post
age.
Wednesday evening of this week
another perpleXer, common from
our post Office, came to our notice.
Constable j. NJ. Mount is one of our
valued subscribers, and came into
our office late in the evening say
ing that he had been to the post
office twice during the day, noon
and evening, and he was unable to
get his Wednesday paper, which
our mailing clerk had mailed long
before noon. The next morning we
went to the post Office ourselves
and asked for MIR. Mounts paper
and it was readily handed out Il
us by the lady clerk, and she wa!
unable to solve why the othel
clerks whom Mr.. Mount had en-
countered did not give the man hi
mail. Upon interviewing Mr.Moun
further we learned that this wasn'
the first time he had been refused
his paper. He also complained o
having had an attachment sen
him by Squire Kline of Enterprise
n distance of four miles, whicl
came down on the 9:l5 a. m. mai
one day, to lay in the Office unit
the next day, before he could get Il
Mr.. Kline, no doubt fearing tina
day that Mr.. Mount would not ge
the notice, came down in the after
noon and told the latter gentleman
that there was such mail in tn
} post Office here for him. He re
paired at once to the Office and wa
told that there was nothing fo
him. In the evening, after tn
second train south, he asked 70
his mail, and received nothing
The next morning, as soon as tn
lady clerk opened the Office, befor
any trains had arrived, Mr.. Mouu
asked for his mail and it was hanG
ed out to him, stamped as havin
been received at the Logan pos
office the day before at 9:15 a. N
1t being too late when received I
serve under the law, the constabl
was compelled to return the sam
to the Squire for reissue, thus de
laying the case nearly week.
And so 1T goes. We merely relat
the above, that came under our dl
rect observation, as among tn
many perp!exing delays at thi
post Office. When we speak of tn
management to any of our citizens
they burst forth and relate a dozer