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Show Postmaster Clarke Comments On Mail Service Editor ot the Citizen: Kindly iermlt mo to comment on your nrtlclo which appeared In last Saturday's Citizen under tho caption ot "Something should bo dono to remedy poor mall service". You. no doubt, and tho public should understand, that tho malls are carried on tho steam railroads, and that when washouts occur or strikes aro on. lato trains and Ir. regularities in the sorvlco often result. re-sult. Both ot theso causes have floured flo-ured prominently In tho railroad sqr. vice this year, floods through cloud bursts being frequent, and tho goner, al strlko ot tho shopmen creating a very unusual and Borious situation. Then, too, some of our mall trains are made up at Ogdcn, and they aro obliged to wait connections with eastern and westorn trains, which are sometimes late, causing delay all dowrVtho lino as well as American Fork. 1 clto these points In order to show Uiat our neighboring and other cities suffer the snmo inconveniences and poor servlco when over wo do, and that theso nro conditions over-which over-which neither tho Government nor any postal officers have any control. The question has been nsked why tho mall does not come ovor tho Or. em lino? This mnttor wits taken up some years ago with tho postal do. pnrtment and Intor.Urban officials, and, as I understand It, was not doem-ed doem-ed practlcnblo for tho reason that tho shortness of tho haul and -tho limited amount of mall would not Justify tho tiling out of 'mail care and employing of mall clerks. J ,In justlco to our local. otYlce, may 1 wy that nil Irregularities in' our service havo been and nro promptly reportod to tho proper, authorities, and steps takon to cor.' rect the mistaken. Tho postal authorities au-thorities aro always glad to rcceivo1 suggestions nnd they wolcomo con. structlvo criticism, and If tho Cltl-, con has nny suggestions that will Improve tho mall servlco, tho postal authorities will bo glad to receive them,, and will, I am sure gtvo thorn careful consideration. Very respectfully, James- H. Clarke, Postmaster m i Tho little article on mall servlco lost issuo was not speaking of "washouts", "strikes" or "floods", or of 'our local postofflco or postmaster, but of tho carolcBsnosa or cussedncss of mail clorks in carrying tho Am. erlcnn Fork mail sacks bvyond their destination, or dropping Uiom, off at other places, or losing them on tho way down, and tho mall service In Snlt Lake. IiCttera havo been mailed In Snlt Lake, and It has taken 24 and 36 hours for thorn to roach this city; jH ngnln, every once in nwhllo 'letters jH come marked "mlssont". j This papor sugguests that the H postofflco authorities take these few- complaints up end forget the late. fl ncss of trains, If they wish; also that all dato-stamps In postofflces H aro cleaned onco In awhile, so one H could read tho dates stamped on H flrsLclnss mall. Ed. H |