The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-05 00:00:00

NEW POST OFFICE.

This splendid public building will be read 94
receive the establishment on Wednesday, the 11;4
instant; and on Thursday, the 12th (his Majeslti
birth-day), at five o'clock in the morning, the
and all connected with the present office in lA'
bard-street, will assemble in their different dept,
ments in the new building, as the mails will on t.°,
morning be received there. The following are solo
of the advantages which we learn from undoubiti
authority the public will derive on the removi",z,
the office from its present situation :—There
be three general receiving-houses established; °P ,
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at the present office in Lombard-street, one ",
Charing-cross, and one in Vere-street, oxfol,
street ; and the time for putting letters into the
post, preparatory to their being forwarded to
Office in St. Martin's-le-Grand, will be extendetil°
a quarter before seven, up to which time no char%
will be made for accommodation. A plan is also ""
contemplation, by which the delivery of letters rti
distant parts of the town will be expedited by
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least an hour ; to effect which object the followido
system is to be adopted; at present the men Wit
deliver the letters after receiving them at the PO
office, have many of them to go a distance of Orr;
or four miles before they reach the walk or district
in which their delivery lies. This not only
sumes a considerable portion of time, but fair'
the man before he commences his official duties; t°
obviate this evil, Government has provided six tlf
riages, built upon the Omnibus plan, each to cart)
twenty persons; these are to be waiting at the P 04,;
office to receive the postmen and their letters, .111,
each taking a certain division of the metropolis, 171,
drop the letter deliverer in his own particular '+'
as he arrives at it, fresh and free from fatiglig'
and within much less time than would be Of:
pied by him in walking the distance. The c"..
rage is also built on such a plan that each passage
will be able to descend from it on its arrival at tb.e.
spot most contiguous to the district in which it's
his duty to deliver his letters, without the carril'
stopping, or being at all delayed in its progress,
These two improvements alone—namely, an earl;
delivery, and an extension of time for putting t •
letters into the post, would of . themselves foal'
very great accommodation to the public ; in additiono
to which, we understand, it is in contemplatiolqe
extend the delivery by the General Post in t,
suburbs considerably beyond the present limits, "J
which the loss of time and additional expence, ocern
sioned by the transfer of letters from the General `:
the Twopenny Post Delivery, will be avoided to
considerable extent.

The new estafette post, as it is called, frog
Paris, is now in regular operation, and will, 110
doubt, extend itself, as its economy and utility Ire
come more known. It is only matter of surPrisi
that such an obvious improvement in the mode °‘
communication between the two capitals has 011
been adopted long before. The plan is to desPathre
the estafette letters from Paris at five o'clock ill tub
afternoon, on four days in the week; they re,ae„
Calais by eleven o'clock on the following °lf;
leaving a period of eight hours for crossing t'',"
Channel before the mail leaves Dover. The letto;
are consequently delivered at precisely the 0511:0
time as those of the ordinary mail from Paris of t'
day preceding.