New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-09
II IS around th.t mo- improyement IN this ntOlerabIe

worked aLtNlhtiOl or Drought ItufteN A. y
riou lat the Oh chu;ch ia which al the Immense Post
Office business of tbs City is transacted is no mere h'
for the purpose or suited the business which must De
done in the New-York PostOce, than the first steam
boat of Fulton would be now TO do the business Of the
Hudson River This building it was thought, might be
rade to answer few yesrs when it was first takes, as
no other could be lad and Wall said the Post Office
must be located there and SO twas made to answer and
does after a fashion, accommodate most inconyen-
enty, the down town interest
But We are told that because there is no room the
poor hard-workDg men up town, can only be treated
With the TantAus Of banquet how daily served up
TO him-he knows there is post-otice-mails letter
boxes-carriers and that some folks do get letters
trsnsnited-that there is cheap postsge-etsers tor
three and newspapers fer quarter of a cent
yet WHEN The city carrier brings him paid letter pa
per- be has pay more and he wishes for re-
io1m but knows not bow Get il, whether he could
get if he should err aloud account Of his grievances
In fact great portion Of those who ought TO be bene
fitted by the pcstofiice establishment are utterly L.
noraut concerning the old fogysm of It's rules aud
regulations" aud the sn,iquated system Of its man
sgement
TIE post Office building in this city is specimen Of
the rigid adherence Of this most useful department of
cur Government 10 the systems aud things Of bygone
ages When Franklin was PostmasterGenera, that
building would have been sufficient So Franblins
han5press sufficient TO work OFF edition Of bis O.
s.e in time for the mails" 1t would hardly answer,
however, TO get the Daily Semi Weekly, Californian,
Furopean and Weekly editions of The Tribune ready
for the same event. Aud here, by way of psrenhess,
may say that our country subscribers often express
satisfaction for punc.Gay in getting OF so large
an edition Of tie Weeklythat they often &c. their pa
pers a hundred miles distant on the very day it is
dated" They little know that the mmutaby SLOW mails
drive US to press twO days in advance Of the date II
We could get our papers through the postofce as fast
as We can get item through the press aud bridegroom,
we would willingly give a thousand dollars toward
fund to improve the system OF United States mails
fla merchant should attempt TO 10 business ia store
so Old ashi,ned small dark inconTenient tha be could
not accommodate his customers his clerks the
former would leave him. So they will, and dc, as much
as possible leave Uncle Sans POstOfce aud slow Mails
The business of the New-York Post Office has doubled
in two wears and its facilities Of Accommodation have de-
creased in about the proportion until at length the
mass Of the people are about good as crowded out
from its advantages And yet are officially assured
that No improvement Jake place until We get new
PestOce-a that present building n the City can
he made to answer 1t is he-ei intention 70 be-
siege Members Of Congress as theypass through, or visit
the City 20 take look at that old Dutch Church. yclept
The New-YOIk Post-Ofice,' in the confident opinion
that On appropriation may thus be secured from Goa
qress. to build new Post Office building, upon mag
nf:ent scale with accommodation tor ircniy City let
"ter carrier omnibuses within the building, aud stable
Groom for horses in the vault under the pavement
nj 4
perfected then the omnbuses with their loads Of let
ter carriers will leave the Post-Oice every two hours
and drive rapidly to the end OF their about
and gather all the box letters on the way AMI bring
them to the Office to be sorted and given the proper
carriers" Then will our cldren's children rise up
and call Us blessed The hope Of delyerauce cometh not
soor if We are 20 wait for the coming of all hs-neg
building neR cmabusses, new stables new horses, new
drivers new carrersand new order OF things for is Sc
ouslv proposed after Congress las concluded give
tie new building 70 spend part If the lifetime of gem
GRAFTON IN making aup 10 Europe, to examine the great
CITY Post.Ofice. and get suggestions and plans for
making ours perfect thing.
This is all very we'll but t belongs the slow
coach, beLindtbe-age rules and regulations shat
have always blocked the wheels of every attempt to 60
ahead wi,h mal facilities suited 20 the altered condition
trains we're undresmt of in the brain OF the widest
iobaIy. We want new Post-Oflce. II Government
csnnot build one, cen hire far better one than that
it now occupies If there Is sli'asle building
ready say Iut tie word AID the brick aud mortar
fly, and Aladdnlihe one will arise We can
lull down, thar any ole can see who will wax tue
streets Of New-YorS and Individual enterprise can
build ap seain and. if Government cannot, can build
new Post Office That we want new and better mail
facilities every tody says. II that maByheaded
power you only say, rs iriH hare them, the thing
would be more than Aalf accomplished.
We sti ilsis. thar we can, even W'h al the incoa
ycnieuces Of tie present Pcs-Cfice bu ding. have
better City delivery II any bur the poor, h4rdWork
Ing n lion were interested We should have t. As
mass they would be powerful, and make their power
felt a. dix du1s though strong enough 20 carry tae
bod, or hove the ack-pIane s.,ch stitch, all day
long they TOO weak work reform and they have
10 organ to plead their cause. and insist upon their
night to equal nal llcries with those veschsafed BY
Government Of the people t. is merchan, princes
The Government delivery Of City letter. has proved
fsilure-the people look UPON L a. a humbug-in in
sttuton for the support 81 few haDee asee-5
clog tie way Of individual enterprise aad 10 behalf
q WAT portion OF the people sho support The penny
post ash he Government and is Oacas gss
o The way. We IRE told t is 700 late to .5e this
lttle request and ths. ss0ud Lave Proser-s be-
fore the streets were legally covered ato post
but III, proves posbng. Let 'hs PosOaic advertise
for proposals for any oiber contract to carry tie
mail and give IL 70 any individual Sho vii deliver ali
TIE letters in the city every two or three hours rone
cent each. Or Incorporate al the private Pos,- ce.
and make them branches If the nriocf,.l Office and