Show AS AN explanations ogdan afy 0 ell post office Offid officials als blamed for they did not do utah jan 24 TUB THE STANDARD permit me a little space in your columns to correct an unjust acau accusation bation against the tile ogden iam department sly my attention baa has just been called to an article in tho the kemi nemi weekly dagret of january 23 in which a subscriber N mho he by the way ia is 1 local 0 ca agent for that paper corn complains 0 Is I 1 I 1 13 81 and just justly thy 03 0 of f the irregular irregular arr arrival ivi ot of the e ne jacim and that no edition of that paper had come to this office tl Iee ince january ath the article in qu question t iol throws all the blane on the oden ogden pos tollice lico officials and intimates that they are a reproach to the united states mail service now mr editor the tile acts facts in the case are these upon opening the mail pouch last tuesday the ilia I 1 found three bundles of the neus of the fol lowine dates january tied up with twine tine furnished by tho the pos tollice dopart department part ment without any wrapper to show where they should go january enclosed in a wrapper upon which was plainly printed huntsville the wrapper had been torn open at huntsville and the postmaster at that place recognizing the names kindly forwarded th them embere here the other bundle was our regular mail this certainly shows where an immediate investigation is needed and that tho the fault does not lay with the tile mail distributing department at ogden but with the mailing department of the deseret news the post office department at ogden have quite enough to do without correcting the car carloine loune a is of the salt lake I ake newspaper pa er I 1 offices and handling their mail tofee twice over to quote from the tile hews article such a system of journalistic service is to say the least an injustice to their ther subscribers I 1 have not the least doubt but that the news is mailed on time a and t i d docs does reach ilia destination to bilic which h it is consigned but when newspapers that should have bave reached west weber breen are enclosed in wrappers wrap pars plainly marked huntsville rua vice verga how on earth can they blame the og ogden aea post loftice officials for their non arrival at I 1 their proper destination W M pun OTON 11 I 1 M weber |