Show Paying More But Getting Less Delay in Mails Reaps Criticism Increasingly alarming re- re reports reports ports of mail delays In the west have led Sen Wallace F Bennett Utah R-Utah to press for improved mail service In utah This may be the space in most respects of our nation nation- national al life but the only space in- in involved Involved in today's mail service is the increasing space of time it takes to get the mail through Sen Bennett said THE SENATOR noted that he has received a large number of letters from describing their problems with the mall mail service The letters followed an anI I appeal to Postmaster General Laurence OBrian O'Brian to take I Immediate action to improve service With the promise that mail service would be improved Con Con- Congress Congress gress last year approved legis- legis legislation legislation lation to increase mail rates and to grant pay raises to all postal workers I am concern concern- concerned ed cd that the Post Office is not holding up its end of the bar bar- bargain bargain gain lie he said TH THE E MOST startling individual mail problem involved a Salt Lake City man who mailed a package to his brother in Detroit last month The fact that it took 14 4 days for the pacKage to arrive in Michigan was unnerving enough But the strange route selected by t the e pos post office for forthe forthe the p package was even more in in- in inexplicable explicable It went from Salt Lake City to Buffalo New York Continued on page 2 Mails Continued from page 1 and then into Canada From Canada the package had to go through customs before It could reenter enter the United State and be forwarded forwarded-at long last to r THE MAN In Salt Lake City sent me the customs label to confirm his story Sen Ben nett said Numerous oth other r Instances of Incompetent and sluggish handl- handl handling handlIng ing of the mail could be cited I such as that of It a package of important documents which I 1 personally needed here in Wash Wash- Ington arriving from Utah too toolate too toolate late to be of value 13 days af ter being mailed the Senator said These cases may not be typical but they happen all too often to be mere happenstance And it is a fact that mail to tomy tomy my office from rural les in Utah regUlarly takes two to three days longer than It did even two years ago THE DECISION by the Post PostOffice PostOffice Office Department t to discontinue ue using the railroad postal sy system sy stem in Utah was termed a major factor in the slow moving Ing mall mail to and from rural areas I will continue to urge Post master General OBrien O'Brien to take action to restore swift mall mail service to Utah and the nation Sen B Bennett 1 nett said ld |