Hillsdale Whig standard. (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1846-1851, 1851-06-17
From the Natior al Intelligencer.
The late Post.O0ice Regulations.

The late Post- Office Regulations.
The instructions of the Postmaster Gene
raj to Deputy Postmasters on tho subject OF
Distribution, published in this paper last
week, bear the strong impress OF discrlmlDa-
tion, Judgment, and Of such renovation oil
the present system as will ensure increased
accuracy in mailing, combined with greater
regularity in the Transmission OF all matter
consigned to the care of the Post Offices =
In this Improvement the entire public nave
so deep an interest that we are induced to
take glance at the details of the order.
We notice that the first injunction is for a
careful asserting of all the lo'ers newspa-
pers deposited in the Post Offices. This
implies. also. that every person who sends Il
letter or paper by the nail shall have taken
care that such letter Or paper is properly and
plainly directed.
Every postmaster within the boundaries
of the New England States is required to
make up direct. with post-bil, all letters for
any Office in any of those States. This a
bolishes the entire system OF distribution
there, which can be done most advantage
ously, in consequence Of the thickly settled
population and great number of post Offices,
all closely united by railroad and steamboat
conveyance, with travelling age nts accompa-
nying.
Postmasters of every other State or Terri
tory are to mail and post bill direct all letters
for Offices within their States and Terrific
ries respectively They will thus be is
patched by the quickest modes OF transmits
sion.
In addition to this regulation, all Postmas-
ters will make up and post-bill. direct, all
letters destined for other States or Terrific
ries which should not pass through distri-
buting office on their proper route to the
place of delivery. This will obviate many
double delays, where letters have passed the
very offices of their destination, under cover
to distributing Office, to be brought back
by return mail.
Beside these. the desire of any writer,
who thinks his letter would be thereby ex-
pedited, can now be gratified by having his
letter marked small direct" before deposit
ing it in the Post Offices
Having thus disposed of the New Engl-
aud States and prescribed certain rules for
mailing in each State. calculated in the
cases specified to secure celebrity III trans
mission better than through distributing
Office. the regulation directs that all other
letters shall be post-biled and mailed to the
first distributing office on the route to the
Office Of delivery.
This portion of the Regulation will dimin
sb, to a very great extent. the labor OF
| Post Master. texcept at the distributing OH
ces) labors which would otherwise be great
! ly augmented by the increase OF letters un
der the new postage law, while, by the re-
duclion of postages their compensation
would be very materially curtailed.
The mailing branch of duties at each du-
ties at each distributing post office are painy
"vXrifl Iiseifers aooresseu " p.~v~s .'
State or Territory in which such Distribution
Office is situated, or within distance oil th'
hundred miles therefrom, or which would no
mass through a distributing office on the pro
Der route to the office of delivery, "shall b'
mailed direct" If, however the office OF de
livery is beyond one hundred miles from
such distributing office, and the letter shoul'
properly pass through one or more distrIbu
ting office on the route to its place OF destl
nation.
Postmastors are reminded of the grea
Importance Of plainly directing each an
every package, with the name OF the post OF
fec, as well as of the State, to which 1t IS I
be sent. Bundles containing letters 10
distribution should be plainly addressed, 1
the same manner, with the addition OF tn
letters I'D. P. O" (for distributing post OF
fice) after the name of the Office
This new scheme of distribution also pos
sesses important advantages in another pom
of view. By bringing the letters to IN
nearest distributing office, and sending ther
thence to the distributing office in direct con
nexion with the office of destination, in larg
uackapes. greater security is afforded agalns
loss and depreciation. as well as against IN
Irregularities arising from mistakes dul
ring the hurried examination of numerou
little bundles at the different oflices-mls
takes which are greatly increased by tn
mutyplcatiy ofthese small packages
+, n ". II E,,rn1-Did Won ever know