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Show KBSSLBR EXPLAINS . Assistant Postmaster Undertakes to Score a Patron of Postoflice. Complaints continue ' to ' reach The Tribune with respect to tho manner in which the Salt Lnke postoflice is conducted. con-ducted. The following communication was received Tuesday: Salt Lako City. Utah, August 20, 190C To The Salt Lake Tribune: A taxpayer on P street wishes to Inquire through this papor tho reason for the late delivery of mall in his section of tho city. On nn adjoining street the morning delivery of mall Is mado as early as 9:30 a. m., while this taxpayer and neighbors wait until 12 nnd 1 o'clock p. ni. for the snme delivery. Is this the fault of tho postmaster's management or of tho Individual carrier. A TAXPAYER. "When the letter was shown the assistant as-sistant postmaster, he read it through and remarked: "This shows the ignorance igno-rance of the general public. It is ritficu-lous, ritficu-lous, such :i Uiing as this, and it seems sometimes as though every man in tho city expects to get his mail at the same 'time. "The average taxpayer knows about as much about the postal system as he does about a good many other things, aud the result of it is that, we have just such kicks as this. "While I do not. know just what the trouble is here, 1 presume it is due to the fact that the street is on u carrior's division, or, in other words, where he ends his delivery. "Ho may start i on time in his district, but the residents of the streets lie covers cannot expect to get their mnil all at the same time, home one hns to suffer in the mutter of time." From what was said b' the assistant postmaster, but little attention is paid to complaints coming into the ollieo from tho patrons, as, according to the official's own words, the postal people will run, the business as they think best, the desires of the patrons notwithstanding. |