The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-20
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SHAMEFUL DELAY
OF IMPORTANT MAIL.

= Sharpe is cavorting around the
country, as is now charged. try
= ing To secure evidence against
+ employees of the r. p. O. SER
Vice who are supposed to be sup
r plying The Tribune with data
+ proving the mismanagemcnt of
y the Salt Lake postofilce, he is
= respectfully asked to report on
\ this case:
+ on Saturday, March II. train
r No 8. which is known as the
y Butte and Portland Express.
= and which is due to arrive here
at $50 a. m, was delayed until
+ 2:30 p. m. This train carried
several tons of mail for the Salt
r Lake postoffice and district.
+ This mail laid at the station one
+ hour and fve minutes before Ii
4 was sent for by the Salt Lake
= pcstofice, although the postofTlce
= was promptly notified of the
+ mails arrival.
Postoffice Inspector Sharpe
4 VIII not report on such things
4 as this, because 1t would reflect
4 upon his friend. the Salt Lake
+ postmaster.
While he is directed to this he
4 might. at the same time inves-
+ tigate and report on the fact that
+ mail from train No. TO- due to
= arrive here at 1885 p. m, and
+ which did not arrive until 10 p.
+ m, remained at the station from
+ 10 o'clock p. m. Saturday. March
+ II until about ! o'clock Sunday
+ morning, although the Salt Lake
y postoffice was notified Of It's ar
4 rival
On the same date the Preston
+ train. which is known as No. Il.
r 1l;45 n. m. was thirty minutes
+ late. This mall laid at the sta
+ tion after the arrival Of the train
y twenty-five minutes.
r Last Sunday the mall arriving
r over the San Pedro from Lynn
+ Junction laid at the station over
+ an hour after the train came in.
y although the Salt Lake postof-
y fce was notified to this effect
y These things have been going
r on for long time. Postmaster
\ Thomas knows about IT and his
+ explanation is that the Govern
+ ment does not appropriate a suf-
y flcient sum for messenger service
r here to properly handle malls
+ passing TO and from the several
y railway stations In the Salt Lake
4 postonice.
Postmaster Thomas and In
4 spector Sharpe never seem suffl-
+ clently interested in the public
+ TO have these faults corrected.
y Postmaster Thomas could call
+ u messenger to meet this emer-
4 eency and 1t would only cost a
\ few dollars to do so, but there
+ Postmaster Thomas separating
+ himself from any money to ac-
4 commodate the public. AS has
+ been said before, he shifts the
4 responsibilities of his own In
\ competency as an organizer OF
r the postoffice of Salt Lake on an
r underpaid messenger. who him
self is doing everything in his
power to carry out d contract
y he foolishly entered into some
+ time ago.
+ Seeing that Postmaster Thom-
+ az refuses to ran the risk OF
+ having TO pay a few dollars for
+ emergency messengers. The
Tribune makes this proposal TO
r him:
When n special messenger Is
+ required To convey mail to or
b from the Salt Lake postoilice
and the railway station In order
+ To properly dispatch or receive
4 the local mails. II Postmaster
l. Thomas viii send the expense
= bill TO The Salt Lake Tribune II
4 Will be promptly paid. Not only
r is The Tribune willing TO do this
+ because il ls personally interest
+ ed In the prompt receipt and
+ dispatch of malls. but 1T WI
+ cheerfully Pay for special service
+ when the regular messenger de-
+ faults.
Now. Postmaster Thomas. 1t IL
\ up 10 you to give the people dc
; l. served service In this respect
There is no excuse for permitting
, l. TONS and tons OF mall 10 remain
y in the postoifice at Salt Lax
l. or at the several railway sta
l. t,ons for want of ample messen
4 l. oer service. II your regula
b messenger. Postmaster Thomas
J. Is not at call send for and swea
Q in a special and send the Dill I
= Tho Tribune, and do not perm'
: b such outrageous evidences
l. NEGLECT and Indifference again !
\ occur as are cited herewith
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P11TGneIS.