Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1845-06-11
Further Post Office "reminiscences.


following rates of pos,age:-Not exceeding Gu
miles sad; upwards of 60, and not exceeding 100
Sd; over 100 and not exceeding 900. l0dd; from
200 to 800. Is Id; 800 to 400, Is 4d; 400 to 500
Is 6!d: 500 to 600. Is 3D. 600 to 700. Is; 700 &c
SEQ. 2s 2a1; 500 to 900, IS sd; 900 to lOoO IS Sd
double and treble letters in proportion. TO be
paid in lawful money Of tho American Colony.
The following notice was published:
annapolis Constitutional Post OFeel
December ), ITS.
Notice is hereby given, That tho Nor;hward and
Southwa I'd mails arrive at this Office every Friday
at O'Clock, and return tho Same day al SIX; and
on every Monday rider leaves this town for
Baltimore, and returns Tuesday for the
/ Northern mail.
The Constitutional office having been instituted
BY the Congress, f tho security and ready con-
veyance of letters and oil kinds of intelligence
through this Continent, and as the same has been
attended with great expense, 1t Is not doubted
that all wcl-wishers 10 the present audab.c oppo-
stion in America, will promote tho Same by SON
ding, and procuring to be sent, II letters packa-
ges &C., TO the Constitutional office.
WILLIAM WHETcRoFT,
Postmaster"
parliamentary Post P,oLi,ed-In Prorineia! Conoen-
tion, annapolis, Dec H. l77o:
"Resolved, That the Parliamentary Post be
not permitted or suffered travel in, or pass
through this Province, with any mail, packages
or letters; and the several committees of obscrva-
ton arc requested and directed to this Rcso-
luton strictly observed and executed ~
And so faithfully did the said committees per-
form this part of their duty, that tho 2oth day
of December. II days after the passage Of tho
resolution, all post offices ''under tho crown
wero discontinued Truly, these Mary and
"rcbels" wore most perscvering set Of follows.
In 1897, Congress passed law reducing tho
rates Of postage twenty five por cent.
January l79O-The Postmaster General in
his report to Congress, says that tho receipts Of
his Department, for tho two previous years, have
boon about S25 COO por annum; he recommends
reduction Of the rates of postage the means
OF improving its rcvcnucs-suggests that tho post
ago between Savannah, Geo, and Now York
should be sixteen cents. Twenty different con-
tracts for carrying the mails-and p. M. G.. says
every contractor consults his interest as to
the timo of arrival and dcparture-no regular
schedules having boon adopted further South than
Alexandria.
In 1899, the Postmaster General established a
Iinc OF Stages between Philadelphia and Bati-
more. During the first three years it produced
nett profit to the Department of $1,000. Du-
ring the succeeding two years, tho faro of trav-
oilers betrayed tho expenses of the Establishment.
saving to the government tho whole expense of
transporting the mails.
Henry Stouffer carried the mail from Balt-
moro to Anna polls for $500 per annum.
In 1902, the Postmaster General recommended
tho establishment of n Government State line
from Portland, Mo-, to Louisville, Georgia, at an
estimated expense of SIPS 900. With view to
obtain much information could be derived
on this subluct, number of queries pro-
pounded to distinguished and experienced resi-
dents of tho southern part of the country. In ono
of these, the Postmaster General asks whether Il
coach. passing every other day the great line.
could calculate OH three passengers a trip His
correspondent replied that, at first it could not,
but, in tho course Of time, that number could be
supplied