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Show Who is to Blame? Mi. Hammer, Ham-mer, of the post office, gave us yestci-day yestci-day ocular demonstration of an act of mail delinquency which deserves the strongest and most severe censure. On the 10th inst. two mail sacks were despatched des-patched from this city tagged Fillmore and Toqucrville, containing letters, paper packages and periodicals. On Wednesday night the same two sacks were received back by the post office here, with their contents in a most dilapidated di-lapidated condition. They bore the appearance of having been soaked for a few days in some creek. The wrappers wrap-pers were torn, soiled and had marks of frequent handling. Who is the delinquent de-linquent in this matter ? Who opened the sacks and handled the contents? Who caused the soaking to which they vrere subjected? Why did not the mail carrier deliver them at Fillmore and Toquervi lie, to which places they were tagged? Did the mail carrier pass them into the hands of any postmaster post-master south with the tags torn off? And if so, why did not that postmaster re-tag them and forward them to their destination? It is to be hoped an investigation in-vestigation into the matter will not cease until these questions are satisfactorily satisfac-torily answered. There has been an outrage committed in the affair on the post office department and the public and it is due to both that the matter be sifted to the bottom. |