The Glenwood post., 1919-03-22
MAIL sTRvICE POOR
GRAND JUNCTION KICKS

Chamber of Commerce, the Grand june
tion commercial organization has earn
'estly protested against the type of mail
service now furnished patrons by Rio
GIande trains No. 10 and 16 since the
mail clerks were removed from the mail
structed Secretary Ella to confer with
the Leadville organization with the aim
of pulling with it for better service.
The Grand Junction chamber likewise
is protesting against the postal service
into Utah towns for which Grand juno.
tion is a terminal.
Conditions in the mail service in and
out of Grand Junction were declared at
the chamber meeting last week to be
frightful, vew taken by the major
ity of members of the Leadville cham
Der when it recently discussed the
question and instructed a committee to
file vehement protest against the
present service, with an appeal for i'm
provement, with the general superin-
tendent of mail service at Omaha.
"The conditions, of course" report
ed the Grand Junction News, care not
understood by many of the merchants
of the city or they would have been
earnestly protesting ere this, but the
situation is like this: There is no mail
clerk on No. Is and 16, which have
their terminals at Grand Junction be-
tween this city and Denver. All mail
matter comes or goes in closed pouches.
A letter that is mailed at noon here
and goes out to Denver at 1:3O is very
likely to lie in the Union station at
Denver for as long as twenty-four
hours before it is dispatched into the
Denver office and sorted for delivery.
The same thing happens all along the
line at all the cities, such as Glenwood
Springs, Leadville, salida, Canon City,
etc.
merchants of this city have thought
all along that they could mail letter
here at noon, and it would be in Denver
at 1880 a. m. and soon thereafter dis
tributed, but unfortunately this is not
the case.
"The same thing is true with respect
to the mail from Delta and Montrose.
It goes from here and comes back from
Delta in a closed pouch. A closed
pouch leaves Grand Junction with mail
for Montrose. It comes back the fol
lowing day empty, as the mail from
Montrose is not allowed to be placed
in the returning pouch. All mail from
Montrose and intermediate points des-
tined for Grand Junction is supposed
to be worked by the mail clerk who
runs from Salida to Somerset, but it is
said that frequently he has so much
mail to sort that he is unable to do the
work and has to carry the mail on to
Somerset and bring it back the follow
ing day when it comes on to Grand
Junction. This has been the condition
ever since the postal department, in the
interest of economy, took off the mail
clerk running through to Grand juno
tion, and it proves distressing to mer-
chants who require quick service.
"The Chamber of Commerce, on mo-
tion, directed the secretary to take this
matter up with similar organizations in
Montrose and Delta and at all points
on the main line to Canon City and
utter demand upon the general super
intendent of the railway mail service
at Omaha to have the old system es-
tablished Of employing mail clerks on
the new train service between Grand
Junction and Denver and between
Grand Junction and Montrose.'
GOVERNOR TO RACK