New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-16

,. . -. ,h., ,ss Pos. Office will reform
i,sD Reform that have taken place 10 All " 'srnh-h'
estahihu eIfs have ben forced "n nm ny " pi
mv nj. b-Jc4 th- n-c-ssi'; oi apr'ynt V'Zo'or'y
:, .-s.3iy The f,-.- - Iubic oqrlou ~ " t'ssl-
vbebi be.iIid,s The O.e D1ich Church IN New iors
Al Sir If be.rrid-. tbs necks If this whole people
from Marie 70 Mississippi from Flord' 60 Fouddd Lac
We are Post Of.ce DECENTRALIZATION The whole con-
cer1 /, forty tbou.snd m1nPover political machine.
The o.b+r eay VT published letter from O,densbureh
.,3sce1 hours from New York, for an individual bl;
IN brurs Gor tie Post-Ofice arrivals - hours
"ip advance Of the mail are ever day occurrences
IN that letter he writer says:
Isnrpo,e Iabit reconcl,s people to such P-ivatons
bnt ~ on. upu,ed 20 b-rn. the patience OF the
OdensLurghrs urder al hat complete GENIAL 10 th-n OF
AIRY sdvaufsge ron Mails seems itolerHole couid I'VE
here right cou;eIiedy wiki Ne"l ORR morning pr le
cefv4d r gusIy dur f.e fooEng night but for AT
AZ lbs. begin 10 count the hours OF my three days So
iourn in tbs County.
And who DOES not court the hours under just such
prvaions at ever, country town in the United states
Habit recopclles toe people" Yes, habit reconces
people 70 almost every thing II re;onced the boy to
lis daily drubbing Your father don't lick you any
"noW.a-dsys. jim" said a temperance freAd TO tle
much abused SOD Of reformed drunkard; hsw do
YOU Ike the change" Well getting sort Of
fused to il DOW. 20 don't mind it much but az first
"it did seem odd 80 We suppose it would seem TO
The OedensbureheIs 20 get mail N anything less than
!orty.tvo bouIs behind time Their pres, NJ state IS
dtscriled a. al bu; complete denial Of any advantage
from mails" Is cot the denial total and perfect
Are the, no- worse N Ian hey would be If they had
no mail and 10 reason to place aDj dependence upon gov
eminent fcr Oily facilities what are post-oSce IA
cilitiesl" Constant disappointment Give the monopo-
y of carrying NAL from New York to Oglens-
urab TO The best BIDDER fos what he can make out OF
IT, and depend ulou IT, THy TRIBUSr Of 20 day will be
read at halt OF the OQGcnsJCrgh breakfast tables TO-
morrow morning Therein We are interested in reform.
80 are those vile read.
One Of our correspondents is surprised that apathy
hos regntd so long. We not IL is the spathy of
ignorance or Incidence Ii is the apathy the patien;
sufferer feels at the approach to his vitals OF an
incuIable disease. With some it is the APATHY
Of iear--the fear TO cry out against abuses, lest
worse abuses might follow. Here is d case ia point
gentleman connec ed with Of the newspaper es
tablshmeus in this City had several TINES deposited
nevsrapers in the New York Posf-Ofice directed to
friend at the West, upon which he placed stamps OF one
cent to each paper which, as he thought, under the
new law, in full prepayment OF postage The pa
p,rs failed 10 reach their destination. AT length boy
was sent to the Office with three papers. tied to-
eether with the same direction, and with ti.see-cent
stamp affixed. II was handed into one OF the Nassau
st. delivery windows the clerk looked AZ the package,
and dashed il out upon the ground, with words thai
frightened the boy the import oobch that whoever
sent him there vas timing TO cheat the Post Office
bur be could not humbug him that way" At this
tr1f NJ Dos rft1..f
81 1dy disposed 10 inquire into the matter but the
propricos # the paper connected with the party IN
ured begged the latter 10 drop IT, for fear the clerks
would all take sides with the detected cuprit and in
jure IL, by all of annoy ances, such not dev
eripg exchanges keeping back papers TO- the mail
With such a craven spirit OF or he part of the
press, TO speak of abuses; with such apathy on the
part of the people being aLusei with such patience
of communities with q Government which gives them
mail in sixty hours which it might Gse in eighteen ho@
are the determinations Of this Teformressting depart
ment to be vash ID away While Government officials
are made up o those who sng peans the most sTeety
10 the powers who need their service mus expect
letters and papers be dashed OF the PostOhce
window aid while the people wiling 70 be ridden,
they will never lack riders II IS for them to say
We will have reform in tlc Icst.Oiice,' AID they
viii get X Ii Thy wish it, heartily SINGER y, as some
Of them pretend do il il for them g. sustain Us in
our present efforts the dormaur energies ol
people who have become recouced t. Ia n lis do.a
iy long usage AID from OFT repetition of tle preence
that the system cauuot be improved
We say it can: if official, say it cannot then the
sooner it is abolished and they turned out To grass the
sooner they will bee tit to I'll the only Office for which
tlcy are coupetent-tLe shafts of donkey cart, in
which ore nay vorh, while another rides on his snail
pace round tie country or city, delivering letters in
"ad,stce of the r.ah.
We say that paid letters can be forwarded ii they
reach the hce one minute before the mail leaves
for the railroad steamboat. just Sel as ii they
On hour before True they could be sorted into the
various bags Tor Offices along tie line but that could be
done by the route agent There is not one particle Of
rea.ou common sense or utility. in marking the name o.
the post Office and date the letter hich pine tines
cut Of ten cannot be read, or making out a BILL or en-
teIng in the account or ia short in doing one O.a Of
writing about tn matter And in minute after such
letter arrives IN this CITY it ought to De ready for de-
livery by the lett-rcarrer All such letters could be
put in bags marked with the carriers number fast as
received the car. just well in the City post
oCe and then, Just soon the locomotive Stopped
leg these bags bee thrown into and driven 20 the
suboiices a over lie city. that every e.ter which
arrived 10y the Boston train for instance al II meridian
az ,t-st could be- in the hands of IL owner IN hour
.terward And such letter delivery woid cost n
morr than il now does and tie threecen postage would
be- al sufficient; for such expedition would increase the
bu,n, IS be- cnd Imagination Wac would pay for box
sLd fight for chance ge into long line OF anxious
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