Show TROUBLE WITH THE postoffice POST OFFICE the stringiest stingiest stin giest legislator in the country would have to concede that the appropriation for the ogden posto flke is woefully in could he station himself for one day behind its desks and note the amount of business which the clerks have to dispose of aside from the large and constantly increasing local demands upon the office there is a burden in the shape of registry business from all the country north and east and west which is simply enormous all of it has to be bandied here and though it does not figure in the calumny whose totals establish the class to which the office belongs it makes a heavy call upon the time and means which ought to be expended in giving the city and immediate neighborhood better service the postmasters eal ary is a year and the amount allow ed for the running expenses of the office is 2900 more after paying out of these suma which must be done and which to be properly done would require the set vices of a dozen clerks it may be imagined that the postmaster has no fat sinecure while the government therefore persists in dealing so parsimoniously with us it must be prepared to bear whatever of fault the press and the public nu elit otherwise have cause to lay against the administration of the office it is time that some strong on the subject reached the ears of the department in washington |