Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1883 — Postoffice Red Tape. [ARTICLE]

Postoffice Red Tape.

When a citizen of SauH Ste. Marie, Mich., wishes to send a letter to a friend in the opposite village on the Canadian side of the river, he directs it, prepays the postage, and pnts it in the poetoffice on the American side; then, in order to reach the postoffice on the Canadian side, which is about one mile distant, the letter goes to Detroit through the United States mails, crosses from Detroit to Windsor, where *t enters the Canadian mails, and

over Canadian routes back to fee Sault, reaching fee Canadian office there in about ten days from the time it started —ten days to go one mile. But when one is in a hurry he goes across fee river himself and talks to fee other fellow; he doesn’t write.