The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-20
ALL MAIL FOR THE
EAST IS MISSED
Mismanagement and Careless.
ness at Salt Lake Post
office the Cause.
BUSINESS MEN ARE
LOSERS BY THE DELAY
Ton of Mail for North and
East Misses the
Train.

The inefnciency OF the local postofNce
was again demonstrated In n striking
n amer yesterday morning. when a ton or
more of flrst-class mail, registered mail
and newspaper mail failed to reach the
Oregon Short Line station in time to dis
patch 1t on the 7:lO train.
No Excuse for Failure.
With this mail was n quantity of copies
points in Idaho. northern Utah. Wyoming
and the East. With 1t also were thou
sands of letters from business houses In
Salt Lake intended for concerns east and
north OF here. The Tribunes were sent to
the local postoff1ce as early as 5;45. which
is one hour twenty-five minutes before
master had his force SO enectually or
ganIzed that they missed this dispatch.
Great Loss to Business.
Think what this means to the business
men Of Salt Lake, All mail in this dis
patch intended for points from Bingham
City TO Garland Is thus delayed twenty
four hours
All mail east OF Granger. which would
include the Eastern States, is delayed
SIX hours
All mail from Ogden to Green River
which should have been delivered during
yesterday. Will not be delivered until to-
day. or a delay OF from twelve to eight
cen hours. This great delay ls largely
due to the fact that mail did not reach
the postofnces east OF ogden until at
night or too late 10 be handled by the
several Sostofices.
Bad Case of Rattle.
All mail Intended for Ogden was de
layed three and oue-half hours. For
intermediate points the paper mail was
delayed three and one-half hours. The
local postofhce seems to have bad case
of the "rattles." The number of blum
ders OF this kind that are taking place
from week to week Is something appal-
ling Postmaster Thomas tells his friends
that these stories about the local office
arc all pipe dreams All OF the local
newspapers know better. So do dozens
OF business men OF Salt Lake.
Drunkenness and incompetcncy among
some Of the postofflce employees and the
Indifference or incompetence on the part
of the postmaster are responsible for
these things, and until the department
sends a postoflce Inspector to Salt Lake
who will Investigate and Will decline to
receive entertainment. street-car tickets,
etc. from those who are being investi-
gated. there will be no Improvement
An Expensive Blunder.
The delay in the dispatch ot The Trib-
une yesterday entailed cost to this news
paper Of nearly $50 This Is the third or
fourth time within a few months the post
office has thus interfered with The Trib-
une's dispatch. Time after time requests
have been made for better service before
the mismanagement of the local office was
made public.
Inspector Winks at 1t,
Inspector Sharp and Postmaster Thomas
are both In tho same boat They have to
stand in with each other. They do not
dare do their duty Sharp has helped sup
press conditions here so long, or is so ie-
norant OF local conditions that he dare not
act against Portmaster Thomas. The re-
suit is a shameful state OF mismanage-
ment from which the public suffers.
Way-Up Mason Mt Twenty-Three.