Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-08-07 | Page 8 | Teton Scores Mail Service

TETON SCORES I IMAIL MAIL SERVICE Business Men l Say Delivery Is Uncertain Appeal t to tie U U. U S. S for Ch Change SpecIal Teton Ida AUS- AUS ug c- c Malt Mail Mall service here hn has become so unsatisfactory that the tho Commercial club has inaugurated I a mo ement to obtain improvement If It possible The Thc club has sent tho the fol fol- I I lowing letter latter to the thc fourth assistant I postmaSter general at Washington who has charge of or all rural mulls I The dally daily newspapers fall to reach us no less than once each week If IC service ser Is at al Its best and In general our lal news heWs delivery I Is not better than that of or the thc ve trl weekly tri kl cals Si St Anthony Called Fortunate St. St Anthon Anthony six sl miles distant which is tl the thc point of or departure for the thc star route carrier re receives eI a n daily delivery of papers without interruption Ouri Our pipers i must then be left at the St. St Anthony or carried past st us In either case our mall mail service beComes be becomes be- be comes conies uncertain TIie Tha time of or dell cr delivery of mail mall at our b by the star route carrier varIes va varies varies va- va va- va ries from three to nine hours after alter the arrival of the thc mail mall trai train in St. St Anthony n. n six miles distant We Ye aro are I in III i in ly 11 wine WIlle certain as to 10 the time of dell delivery here hoists Charge We We a attribute this poor service Mr largely largel to the carelessness and apathy of ot the thc driver and nd to the emaciated and miserable condition of or the horses used Were e these horses to come under under un un- un- un der the observation a af at a 1 humane of ot- fleer ho would Institute proceedings at once We Ve c are of the thc opinion that the Imm im immediate Im- Im m mediate establishment of the proposed man mall route from the Sugar City railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road station direct to The jhc Teton pos postoffice post post- t- t office as has been ou outlined to your department would cause efficient carriers carnets car car- nets to bid for fol the tho ro route te No time would be bc lost by transfer through another an nn- anther an- an other ther and we should be furnished furnished furnished fur fur- with a mall mail service er in keepIn keep keep- Log ing In with the he general high standards of the thc United States postal service