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3lL 00041	w	CRITICISMS,	C^3ES	AND	DEFENSE OF
MAIL DELIVERIES AT BAY ST. LOUIS
2k & 2 5 September 2bs & 2a, 1878
Daily Picayune - Thursday, September 26, I878 - p 1 c 5
COMPLAINT ABOUT MAIL DELIVERY To the Editor of the Picayune:
Bay St. Louis, September 2bt 1878
In behalf of the many transient residents of this place. I would respectfully enter the following complaint, hoping that some remedy may be suggested.
Our mails arrive here at 5:^5 P. M., inplenty of time to be distributed the same evening; but for some unaccountable reason they are not delivered until the next day at 10 A. M.
Not only are we very anxious to hear from our friends and relatives at home as early as possible, but we would like to answer their letters so that they could go by the return train at 7:05 the next morning.
There is no plausible excuse that I can see for the delay.
Yours, etc.
BOARDER
Picayune - Saturday, September ?3, 1878 - t> 1 c 5
THE BAY ST. TOPIS POST OFFICE
Bay St. Louis, Miss., Sept. 201, 187^
To the Editor of the Picayune:
I noticed in your edition of today a criticism of the management of the Post Office.
There are two sides to this, like most other cases. ■"Boarder” cannot be a very early riser, or he would have discovered that the Post Office is, and always has teen open from 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. for the delivery of mails—and previous to the breaking out of the yellow fever in the family of the Postmaster, was kept open until
10	P.M., and as soon as consistent they intend delivering the maill as previously.
Mrs. Avery and her two children have all had the fever and upon her sister, Miss Welch, has devolved the double duty of Post Master and Nurse, which duty she h^s nobly performed notwithstanding that she has never had the fever.
It seems that while the people of the South are calling so loudly for sympathy and helD upon other parts of the country, that it would
be in very good taste for them to bear with a little inconvenience from their suffering fellows.	inconvenience