New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-24

approaching the stage While standing SIN. Ine
cars all arrive at Canal-st. s2d Broadway, Bar
clay-st., Astor House or Peck-slP; and the
stages all STRIVE 81 Jersey Ferry. so2th Ferry or
Fulton Ferry. A. fast IS they STRIVE let re-
ceiver take out all the letters and put them IN
bag. and let o messenger with fleet horse ride
the circuit continually carrying those bags TO the
Post-Ofice. These round robin trips can be
made every half-hour, passing the Post-OHree
each time, so that the average time upon every
letter dropped in the box Of any stage or gar
before il reached the PostOfice would not eS-
ceed half-an-hour.
But this is not all. Letters for delivery in all
parts of the City would be transmitted in the
same WAY, Let US illustrate; At Fourteenth
ST.. for instance. a collector should be stationed
upon each stage and car line, to intercept and
collect all letters for the Fourteenth-st. Deliy-
cry. Through this street messenger should
ride back and forth from river to river to collect
and carry these letters to one, two, or more de-
livery stations. The bags taken by the messen-
ger AT the downtown terminus of all the lines,
when carried 10 the Post-Ofce would be ex-
changed for bags for each OF the uptown deliV-
cries. 10 be conveyed in stages designated by
FLAG or sign. the driver of which without the
least hinderance could hand them to the across
town messengers to carry them rapidly TO the De-
liverv.Ofices, whence finally they would be taken
every half-hour BY the letter-carriers TO the In
dividual claimants. These aeross-town messen-
gers could be located every halfmile up the
island. if necessary.
By such system, a lady, for example, at For
tieth-st. and Eighth-ay. could write note to her
husband at the shp-yards foot of Sixth or
Seyenth-st. East River, and sending 1t to any
passing stage or car could count on KS reaching
the Post-Oifce in one hour and in fifteen mln-
rtes after il would be on one of the Dry-Dock
stages 10 its destination. whence would come
an answer by the same routes, or by one more
eypeditious across town. All this could and
should be effected for one cent postage-two at
the outside. Give the omnbuses ten per cent,
snd it would pay them far better than passenger
fare, and the whole undertaking would be sell
sustaining and money making.
Letters received by mail out of the City should
be delivered free Of charge, and be sent off as
fast AS they arrive to the various stations IN the
CITY in the manner we have indicated No foot
letter.carrier should have TO walk over mile IN
\ single trip. but should return to his station
every half-hour If all letters were paid before
hand the service would be as we'll performed by
active bows as by stout men. Ii would even
furnish employment for some women now out of
work
Under this arrangement all the private letter
carriers and Post-Cfiices would of course have
TO succumb But instead of driving them from
the field they might be merged in the new sys-
tenn The business, too, Of the City Delivery
would increase to an almost unlmaglnable ex-
tent. and we have NJ doubt it would add ten per
cent 10 the number of letters written by ind-
yiduals TO the country.
Such system of letter-deliyery could be put in
complete operation N one month, If the old land
turtle of the United States Post-Oihce could be
made to crawl by bcoPing Goals OF fire on his
hard she'll back. Ii Government could get out
OF the way or rather give out the job by con
tract there are plenty of enterprising indiyid-
uas who would put the machine in motion.
Indeed, it is toleriby certain that If anything
is accomplished in the way Of postage reform,
private citizens viii. have to do it.
Our plan contemplates the carrying OF all let
tcrs 70 the office for mailing, free OF charge, and
delivering all letters upon which postage has
once been paid in any part Of the United States
without an addition, as at present, of two cents
or city delivery.
We have not the least doubt that City letters
would pay all expenses. The system would
secure to us, at all events, certainty and fire.
quency of rapid delivery, and the people would
pay any reasonable charges, and yet be thankful
for the accommodation.
If such a plan As we have limited at is too
good for US to have at once from the Govern
ment let it at least give US something bet
ter than the present one-than which nothing
can be worse. Any change will be hailed
with JOY as an improvement.