The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-02-15

Fly Post oe::. comparing Il. fourth quartz; Of
ROBERT B. RUST,
Clerk Post Office Department, Feb. IL, 1916
1t will be perceived on examining the above table,
and those previously published, that the de-
fcit which was to have been expected in
the first stages OF this great experiment,
has gone diminishing as the experiment
has progressed. We think there can no
doubt but that, in the course of few years. not
ly there will be found no deficit, but that with pro.
per management, and due control, this plan will
prove even more profitable than the old system of
high rates Of postage. So far hail this reform
great work achieved for regard the above table
sufficient to warrant the conclusion that the expert
ment will succeed
There remains yet many reforms to be effected in
the management, and above all, in the minor bust
ness, OF the department. The dead letter office, we
think, is conducted on wrong system. In England
letter not taken out in due time, is opened and
turned to the writer Of it. With such letter is
destroyed, unless it contains money. Also there is
more courtesy shown by the English Post Office
department to the people, than is done by our de-
partment. For example, If letter for A. B i, resi-
ding in America, is lying in the Post Office in Lon
don, unpaid, it should be, the proper clerk will
send letter to America, to A. B., telling him of
the fact, and that he must write to his correspond
ent to attend to the payment of his letter if he wishes
to obtain it, All this trouble and attention is due to
the public and is not labor bestowed for nothing,
as the business thus created pays for itself Ano-
ther minor reform is wanted in the W indow deli
very system As il now is, letter for A. Smith,
will be delivered over (here in New York at leasD
to q. Smith, or any Smith that asks forit; and in
nInetynne out of hundred, The letter is lost
forever to its true owner. But we are young PEG
pie, and have much to learn. With time, no doubt,
shall learn enough, though it cannot be denied,
we already know ga thing or two"
HOUSE HUNTING IN New YoRK.-The February
quarter" has come, and according to the old Knick-
erbocker custom, those who intend to change their
residences are on the tramp, looking out for new
domcil rouse hunting an insufferable evil con-
nected with residence in New York, and unless an
individual has capital wherewith to buy residence
in fee, fortunate enough get lease Of for
a number of years, he must expect to be tossed
about from year to year..
We do not see as large a number Of bills on
houses this as we have in former years, but we
have no doubt that the first day OF May will present
as many carts, with furniture, any former one
We have often wondered why this system of rent
ing houses, from May to May, in preference to any
other month, has prevailed in New York for such
length of time, for every person we have seen, la
ments its existence. 1t has always been a difficult
matter to change long established custom, and this
rule applies as muchto renting houses particular
day to anything else. But it is strange thata
,omlke this, manifestly nconvenient, and attend
ed with so much loss and damage of property, ha
existed so long 1t has even been inc orporated upon
our State laws AS the law stands at present, If no
agreement be entered into between the landlord and
tenant, the law will presume that the time intended
between the parties, from the first Of May till
the fret Of May following. In no other city In the
Union, if we except Brooklyn, (and that city is but
a part OF the environs of New York; does this alb
surd custom prevail. The annual tax incurred in
the removal Of furniture, the carriage, brea kage and
otherncidenal expenses and losses, very great,
and if an accurate estimate Of such damages were
possible to be made, il would show sum create
than any one ever supposed.
We would suppose, if united effort were made.
and the subject agltated properly that the custom
would be broken up in time.
STRANGE Posr OFFICE ARRANGEMENT The Post
master nj New Orleans has recently puhlished the