Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1916 — Mail Service at Moody As Bad As 30 Years' Ago. [ARTICLE]

Mail Service at Moody As Bad As 30 Years' Ago.

Charles P. Moody and other patrons of the Moody postoffice believe they have a, “holler” coming amt Charley is making it. He would like to discipline the present bosses of the postoffice department for having discontinued the very satisfactory service of star route deliveries. Since that route was discontinued patrons of the Moody, formerly Pleasant Grove, postoffice have been compelled to get their mail about any way they can. Some changed to R. D. No. I,’ Rensselaer, some changed to McCoysburg and others who continued to get their mail at Moody, receive it a day later than formerly. Mr. Moody says that the service is as bad or Worse than it was thirty years ago when the carrier made trips to Pleasant Grove three times weekly. Then they got two days’ mail at one time, but they kept partly up to date. A petition for a rural mail route failed to get results and during the summer months Charley can't learn how the ball games came out until the soon of the second day, while the markets are always a day behind. It seems as though the remedy might be found by asking for another rural route out of Rensselaer, taking a northeasterly route over the old star route and embodying enough extra territory to comply with all requirements.