White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-07-15
PROUD OF POSTAL SERVICE.

fntJAD UT Itt0t-t1I ASAs
A couple of weeks ago at Reno a
postofice convention was held and
according to the newspapers o. that
city all of the live problems OF this
great department of the American
government were discussed with an
animation and frankness that were
at once surprising and delightful.
The most pronounced feature was the
presence of a bureau official from
Washington, w. Irving Glover by
name. who cut of the red tape and
buck-passing precincts of the inferno
of bureau methods, he was found
even with his name parted in the
middle to be a Live human being
and because he handled statistics of
gasp-producing enormity with such
a line of stories and jokes-parlor
type. oo-as Reno gatherings have
not heard in a long, long time, he
was refreshingly interesting.
All right. Good as far as it goes.
Mr.. Glover went into details. First
of all he left a good impression; next
he told of handling $4,000, 1000, 900
annually of the taxpayers money and
of expending 100000, 900 in fur
nishing the service, of having on the
payrolls $4,000 rural carriers, of
10, 900, 600 letters being carried to
the dead letter office, operating the
largest express business in the world,
of there being no politics whatever
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service penetrating these wondrous
labyrinths, and finally of how these
conventions are a help-such & help
and such a picture.
But reading it all through the
White Pine News has failed to find
any reference whatever TO the wcn-
derful star route service given by
the government TO the people living
at remote places like those of eastern
Nevada, western Utah and every
place and settlement not OH a rail-
way from the Rocky mountains west
to the surf of the Pacific ocean
While you are Dragging about your
wonderful service, your no politics
and the amount of money you have
trotted around and spent, why not
tell how long it took you to deliver
such mail, Mr.. Postofiice Official, and
how many trips the people of the
western mountains had to make at
an expense of $50 to 5000 per trip
because the postal service was so
slow that by waiting for it they
would have to let it go till next week
or the week after? Why not utter a
few sentences about the mails that
lie over from twelve to seventy hours
at country postoffices even while en-
route from another country poStof-
fee to the railway, merely to comply
with some rules that We're laid down
in 1869 and you were too pig-headed
to change or to suggest changing?
He did not tel, how in a single
valley or settlement one postofice re-
ceives and delivers mail three times
q week, another twice a week and Il
third once a week. He did not tell
that mail laid over both going and
coming at these various Offices to
wait for these various schedules, the
n from the other, nor that these
Offices sometimes are on one and
sometimes on other routes. in any
event not being continuous and all
making for the most wretched SER
vice. He did not convey to the meet
ing IN intimation that the govern
ment had plans IF eradicating this
difficulty by substituting a continu-
Gus and uninterrupted service for
single settlements and contiguous
settlements.
From the city standpoint, where
The government under the postoffice
management for a generation has
conferred its efforts for betterment
and for giving the nearest to a salts
factory service that it gives any
where, this exposition of the depart
ment's methods may sound fairly
well, but from that of the rural
dweller, the backbone of the country,
it is but an undertaking of his intel
ligence and therefore an insult.
For the postal service of the Unit
ed States the officials of this govern
ment should blush for shame. It's
victims are so doing and crying in
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