The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-04-27

sd. aApsysal posai - cent? letter and double
ihat cher nor prepaid"
The writer urges with much earnesness and ability the
importance Of the suggestions made in the foregoing
tract, but we have space only for the following:
a. Now We the reason, and of the principal
ones why they write many more letters In England than
they In this country. Their post convenient cheap
and 80 expeditions they write three letters where
write la London there ten letter deliveries day
and post Offices called receiving houses are located all
the city, that person has 10 walk over two
three squares before getting Office where letter be
mailed and every two hoursat eight ten, and tweyein
the morning. and every hour In the afternoon all the letters
are collected by carriers and those for the city delivered at
once Often has the writer of this mailed letter in London
and large cities Great Britain in the morning and
had and got to il by post before two
o'clock the day In New York, where the sub-pos
offices and carriers depended at all 1t Is usually
from three days before letter is delivered after it Is
Mailed when is only going another part of the city,
less put in the city post Office in Nassau street. and then
il totally Of the question get under thirty
six forty eight hours. Then, when there universal
letter delivery there not fourth the number Of deve
ry required in the post office for people do not call
their letters but stay home and get thom earlier in the
day. the average than they do. Were there regu
lar letter delivery and postoice money orders--dras
from post Office to another-between all the prin-
cipa Offices there would be such an increase in
the number of letters and the revenue, that should
be able to have postage reduced to two cents
and the expenses Of the Post Office met by the re-
ceips The number of lettercarriers in Great Britain Is
about 1920 They receive for their services f6s 7s4 per
annu or in our currency Ss43 970 Now in the London
district alone the number Of letters delivered annually as
and these letters the postage
over $3.50 larger than paid to all the edrriers
IN kingdom. Were ii not for this etter-deivery, two
would pass through the post and
consequently derived from them would be
The delivery by carriers in Great Britain far
than supports ITSELF aside from the great loss OF time
would otherwise be spent going to and from the post
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the Office Often delay Others and the time OF the
clerks looking whether there letters for us or not
mol postal system is not half system that does not carry
the letters the door of every living in the towns and
cities. The very of them, that engaged in
carrying letters part of the time act sorters and
sampers in the post office at certain hours of the night or
day. The morning delivery being much the heaviest many
of the carriers viii be at liberty part of the time and
portion of these do other duty The paid carriers
England varies muci in London, usually from fifteen to
twenty shngs sterling week. but in provincial towns it is
frequently much less their services being often required only
for hour two and when performed their time their
own