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Show OUR MAIL SERVICE. While In Salt Lake last week the editor called UMn Postmaster Thomas to see if some imti-ovemeut could not be made In our abomnable mall service. serv-ice. Postmaster Thomas said the ervlc wa very poor, but It wa out of his power to remedy It. The matter mat-ter I under the charge of the Superintendent Super-intendent of the Railway Mall, the one for thl division being at Ix) An-gele. An-gele. All the Salt Lake postoffice doe I to make up the mall for the train designated by the Superintendent. Superintend-ent. Two mail are made up at Salt Lake for the Salt Iake Route, one for distribution on the train that loaves the city about 5 o'clock. A thl train doe not stop in Millard County except at Lynn, the mall for point In thl county Ix thrown off there. A dosed sack for each of the several postoffice along the road I made up for the train that leaves Salt Lake jthout midnight. mid-night. There Is no mall car on thl train and the baggage man Is supposed sup-posed to throw off the sacks at the dif. ferent stations, and also to pick up the sack left at Lynn. The fact I that every few days the sack are not thrown off at Delta. Last Saturday papers for Instance did not reach Dolta till Tuesday, and this frequently happen. hap-pen. The mall out of Millard county I just a poorly managed. All the mall goes north. The southbound mail i supposed to be sorted out and thrown off at Lynn, but this often misses. Either it Is carried past Lynn on the south bound train, or the big-gage big-gage master falls to pick it up. perhaps per-haps the mail clerk hasn't time to distribute dis-tribute It proMrly, and perhaps that Is why all the Hinckley and Deseret mall for Salt Ike'was thrown off at Delta. For the past two weeks the Chronicle's correspondence whlrti 1 always mailed it Delta on Thursday, didn't get to Salt Uke or go south till Saturday. Th wrvlre seem to be getting worse In-Head In-Head of better and the Chronicle will otitlniie to kick until It 1 remedied. |