| Show A CHAOTIC POST OFFICE THAT THAN the ogden post office should be permitted to run at hap bap hazzard for so long a time as it has is one of the local anomalies of the times timea the mails constitute one of the most important branches of the public service that they should be manipulated in the careless manner in which they have been in so important a railroad center as ogden is inexcusable the Dews newspaper paper matter appears to be treated in the post office of that town with contempt much of it never reaching the parties to whom it is directed letters seem to be viewed with indifference numbers of them being delayed all the way from a day to a week or two before being forwarded to their destination there is one thing that palliates palli ates this offense against the public to far as general nathan kimball the postmaster to is concerned that gentleman Is ill but that fact does not exonerate the department it is probable that the office is practically in the hands bands of the clerks whose indifference super induced by the absence of responsibility creates confusion it was a mistake in the first place to give the office of postmaster to a veteran in failing health and at the best probably not naturally adapted fora position of that character if it was deemed necessary to recognize in some substantial way the services of general kimball in the cause of his country or party it could easily have been done without jeopardizing the business and other interests of any portion of the public A remedy for the postal wrong caused by the chaotic condition of the ogden office ought to he applied at once |
