Show TELEGRAPHIC NEWS Rival Postal Service Washington 70ffice of tho post office department in reply to inquiries in regard to the proceeding recently taken to close private postal companys in New York City says that so far as the investigation investi-gation has gone it seems to show that the most flagrant violators of the law arc the company known as the Hu < scy Express bpyds Dispatch Post Manhattan i is net Telegraph Co and United State Circular Delivery Company The post office officers here Bay it not only result in losaot large revenues to the department depart-ment but materially in many ways interferes terferes with the proper conduct of the United btates postal service and brings ndeserved blame upon the postal administration ad-ministration The Boyd and Hussey Companies make collections and deliveries deliver-ies only twice a day while the regular government carriers deliver and collect from eight to twenty times daily Its not true therefore that private postal companies are patronized because their service is better than that of government The only advantage which these private postal company s have over government is that of lower rates The private organ ization doing business under the names of the Manhattan District Telegraph and Circular Delivery Company bas recently begun to transmit mail matter in bulk to other cities than New York where they have agencies and to distribute it there thus beginning a formation of a net work of mail routes in clearly illegal ompetion with the postoffice department II |