Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1919 — PUNK MAIL SERVICE, INDEED [ARTICLE]

PUNK MAIL SERVICE, INDEED

Takes Three Days for Mall From Rensselaer to Go Six Miles. The packages of Saturday issue of The Democrat failed to reach Surrey, Parr or Fair Oaks or the rural routes out of the two latter places until Monday, although where they were marooned from Saturday morning until this time is not known, as they were placed in the post office here as usual Friday evening and the postmaster says they were sent out on "the milk train Saturday morning. The mail service we have had on our papers the past few years has certainly been something "fierce,” and it is evident that a whole lot of incompetents should be put back to digging trenches. Since the route carriers at Goodland lhave taken To starting out two hours earlier each morning, that they might Jfihfe^bUrt'Of the forenoon and all afternoon to loaf, and we have been required to reroute opr papery...by Sheldon, The Democrat —in common with all other papers on the routes there —has been a day late all the time. We have been trying to get this matter straightened out, and hope to soon, but the mail service, for some reason, Is and has been the poorest during the past few years* that we have ever seen In our thirty years In the newspaper business. In fact, we have had more trouble with the delivery of our papers during this .time —many times over, more trouble —than in all the .other years we have been in business combined. And the rates of postage we pay has more than doubled, too.