American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-10-21

serted are few and in such CASES, yol Can aFraL9e te
Offices in alphabetical order. You will return to this de-
parment well the original returns as The consolidated
one which you required to make
This plan has been adopted from conviction that this
department does realize much more than one half the
amount that should be received from newspaper POSTAGE
and that no mode can be eectual to the collection
of this anoun except that shall enable this depart
ment 70 raise an against each Postmaster in the
unon for the postage on newspapers sent TO his Office
The above arrangement will efiectualy do this.
II is believed that the publishers Of newspapers will
readily en their aid, 10 the accomplishment Of this
object. They will experience from it most essential adj
vantage, as Posmastes will be punctuai TO inform them,
when subscribers fail to take their papers out OF the Post
Offices.
Masters arc now required to charge the postage
newspapers, quarter in advance and TO apprze prn'
tiers of all papers not taken out Of their they
will therefore be required to account TO this department,
for the postage all newspapers sent TO their Offices I'M
less they shew that subscribers failed to take them
and that the printers duly apprized Of the fact.
most rigid compliance with the duties here enJoined,
JOHN MCLEAN.
0 This Circular will be addressed every Postmaster,
in whose vicinity newspapers are published
The above Circular announces arrangement adopt
ed by the Postmaster General, the object OF which is,
more completely the Post Office Department
the Revenue accruing from Newspaper Postage.
The plan which has been thus resored to is perhaps the
only which was likely be effective 1t will devolve
trouble upon the Publishers of Newspapers, but it
will repay that trouble by advantages more than eqiva-
lent 1t will put perpetual end 10 the practice in many
Post Offices, in total negligence of their instructions, of
suffering papers be received there which not taken
out of the Office by the persons 10 whom they directed.
1t will op off blow the morbid the
subscriptions to newspapers leaving them solid aud health
fill it being in general fair presumption that he who
pays his postage regularly will also pay his subscription.
The Publishers Of Newspapers will therefore, should
think, not object TO this arrangement. II will be as
troublesome to the Editors of this paper 10 any others
and, having viewed in all its bearings, they confidently
believe it will be useful and acceptable arrangement
respects publishers of journals of whatever description
As to the public there be doubt of the justice,
and even necessity of such arrangement this The
People pay the postage their newspapers and the whole
amount ought to to the General Pos, Office and
contribute to deay the expenses Of the transportation Of
those papers, The smalness of the amount of postage
received at each Post Office has caused it to be sometimes
dsregarded altogether in the returns from the Deputy
Post Offices to the General Post Office, and in general
have been loosely attended to- Some very mporunt Post
Offices, informed do not return greater
newspaper postage quarterly than should be received for
the postage the National ntellgcnccr alone to
those Offices When is considered that there pre-.
sent check TO those returns, tie necessity of nterposng
one viii be at once perceived
We have much confidence in the public spirit of our
professional brethren, that satisfied the Importance
OF this regulation 20 the public interest will be OF Itself
sufficient Involvement 10 them to give their jealous supper
to measure which, it Is supposed will add to the Rcve
nue. OF the Post Office Department at least Eg MonRand
doHmS per 01nihn. Nat. Ln