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UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE.
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PREPARATORY NOTICE
The enterprise IN which we now embark AMI
of which this paper is at once the commencement l.
and sample Of the papers that are to follow, as
for ts ann no less q purpose, than to impnrt in
struction, in the general and detail, to the Oicer
and Agents Of the American public, in respect both
to their duties and their rights, and to make them,
and the people at large, acquainted with the organ
xation, decisions and action OF the Executive de-
partments of their Government. There has hilh
srto teen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of Information Of this kind. The
lpublicaton of the Laws and the issue of instruc
tons, more or less comprehensive, and at intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
quate in the absence Of the construction OF those
Laws, applied to particular cases, and of details
|
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too voluminous
and are printed in quantities too small for general
| circulation; whilst the debates in Congress and
the commentaries of the press upon their proceed
ings, and the proceedings Of the Executive branch
of the Government, besides turning mostly upon
general principles, address themselves only TO
marty ends, and to matters Of national policy.
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves as far as they 60, and
some Of them Indispensable; but there is much
that do not reach the hands Of all, if they did.
do they furnish those rules, methods, and exam
pies, for the despatch Of the public business which
render the discharge of public duty either safe
or easy, whether in respect to the incumbent him.
| self, or the department or bureau under which he
acts. We shall make an honest effort to supply
this vacuum, and to provide for these necessities.
Ii we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary offices more uniform, methodcal, and ex
act, we shall make the administrative duties of the
departments more easy and effective. and thereby
promote the real and substantial interests OF the
country And this we expect TO do, to some ex
tent at least--apart from, and independently OF
any party or personal interest or question what
ever.
| II is known to most Of those to whom this pa
per will be sent, that the Senior Editor was Audi
tor Of the Post-Ofice Department until the month
Of November last; with by far the larger portion
| of both postmasters and contractors, he has had
direct intercourse, in person or by letter He en-
tered the department fourteen years since, and for
many years previously, had been, first in the War
| Department and subsequently in the Treasury.
| He has therefore had the best opportunities for
understanding the arrangements Of business in all
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry it on Since his official connection with
| the Government ceased, he faters himself he hf
preserved the respect and regard of most of the
present incumbents Of the departments, and is
!. becoming terms of intercourse and ciyility with
them all The Junior Editor has been asssiduourly
, engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sonai inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details OF the Post-OHice and
other branches of the public business. 1t is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative ac-
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and statistical
information, that we challenge your confidence
and solicit your support and patronage.
We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month as
the day for the publication Of our paper, so as to
afford time for obtaining from the departments,
all the orders, notices and changes issued, or made
by them during the preceding month. Tables o.
! Post Offices, and compilations Of the Laws ana
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two or three years. 1t is a
! matter of inconvenience and complaint, for which
hitherto there has been no remedy, that in one
month from the time of these issues, there Of
fees in the tables which are no longer IN operalions
and Offices in operation which are not in the tabes
At this time there perhaps over three thousand
offices of the two descriptions In like manner
laws have been passed and regulations established
since the issue Of the last volume Of regulations,
Of which many postInasters and others arc wholly
ignorant, We propose TO prevent, for the present,
any increase Of the evil OF either kind, and from
J the time another issue shall be made, our paper
will furnish the additions, corrections, and modf-
cations, made in each month, and by being filed
and preserved will afford to posmasters full and
exact Information upon both subjects, up to and
IIr-- uch Of he pra nadi
recton remailing, doubt, confusfon error, and
imposition will be saved by the progressive state
Of full and exact knowledge, for which have
proyded, and for which we engage, every intelIi-
gent postmaster can estimate Tor himself.
| These advantages alone and Independently of all
others. are worth many times the price we charge
for the paper, and will it is hoped, induce every
postmnster who feels Just pride in his office, or
a patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency Of the whole Post Office system-ai once
to subscribe The same considerations apply to
the orders and notices, decisions, and instructions
Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interior
dennrtmente and the same liz intended in
respect to them Notices of the decisions of the
) Supreme Court, in cases turning upon questions
of official duty national interest, will find place
! in this patsr
A department Of our paper addressing itself not
merely to postnasters and other officers of the
II Government, but all other citizens who give at
tenton to the affairs Of the nation and the progress
and development OF the c'untry, VIII embrace IN a
| condensed form the matters submitted to, or aris-
| ing in Congress. At each session vast deal Of
valuable information is communicated to Con-
gress, by the several departments and their sabor-
3innte bureaus and profound and comprehensive
reports are made by committees of both Houses
But the great mass of the community know moth
inp of the contents of these documents and re-
ports. except the brief notices of them, which
from time TO time appear in the public papers,
Tbs standing number printed of each documen
and report, is only twelve hundred in the Senate
and fourteen hundred in the House Of Representa-
,iyes which at once shows the imPracticabiiity
,b.;r determination. The ADVERTISER will con
tain short abridgments or analysts of all these
documents and reports, and the compend will
therefore not only prove exceedingly useful and
instructive in itself, but will furnish an easy index
70 those interested, whenever II is found desirable
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