The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-19 00:00:00

DELIVERY of LETTERS.—The Postmaster-
General, anxious to promote rapidity and
correctness in, the delivery of letters, has, for postal purposes,
divided Lond on and its environs into ten districts, each to be
treated, in m any respects, as a separate tome; and to render
this arrangea nent effectual,, he earnestly requests that every
means may be taken by,the public for causing letters to be
directed RC( Lording to thdtnetrict for wrath they are intended.
Initials will suffice, and for the- house at which this notice is
left the in itials are W. C., the district being the Western
Central. In the direction of a letter, these initials shculd be
legibly wri tt en in a separate line, and should in all cases end
the address, thus :

JAMAS THOMPSON, Esq ,
500, High Holborn,
W.C.

Or, when, the letter is from the country, thus :
JAMBS TIIO3IPSON, Esq., t
500, High Holborn,
London,
W. O.
Among other means of inducing this practice, it is sug-
gested that, when convenient, each resident of the Western
District should add the name of the district, or the initials, to
his own address inside his letters when writing to his cotle.
epondents, and on his address card. Also, that if in b
tees, he should give the name of the district, or the initials,
in the heading of bills or invoices, in advertisements or
placards, and .on any article of manufacture which may bear
his address.

Correspondents not attending to the above arrangement,
should be req nested to use the initials in reply.
Information a s to the district in which any locality is in-
cluded may b e 7nad at any receiving-house in London and its
environs, or aa any head post-office in provincial towns,
sit all of w!cl'ich alphabetic lists of streets, &c., will be
kept for refer,enee. The British Postal Guide, which can be
procured (pri c e 6d,) at any head post-office, will hereafter
contain a sired lar street list showing the district initials : and
like informa4 son, the Postmaster General is assured, will be
given in the London Post Office Directory for the year 1857,
In the part 'headed " Street Directory."
The folio wing additional information may prove useful :

TABLE OP DISTRICTS.

Names.
Bastierrn Central District
Western Central District
Northern District
Nfocth Eastern District
%stern District
South Eastern District
Southern District
South Western District
Western District
North Western District

Initials.
E. C.
W C.

. N. E.

S. E

S. IV.

.. N. W.

If the initial letters be thus regularly appended the depart-
Mont will be able to assort with facility and correctness the
country letters,. according to their respective districts, before
they reach London in the morning.
By a recent improvement about 60,000, or fully one-third,
of such letters are already so assorted with as much correct-
ness as circumstances allow—a change which has greatly ex-
pedited the delivery; and it is hoped that, if the previous
assortment, with full facility for correctness, can be extended
to all, this ad•rantage, seconded by other improvements now
In progress, will eventually secure to the public the benefit
of a further wed important acceleration of the morning deli-
♦ery throughout London.
By command of the Postmaster-Genegol.
ROWLAND HILL, Secretary.
General Post-office, Dec., 1856.

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