New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-14

now, while correspondence will increase much
faster, for the public will use increased
and chespened privileges far more.
With Uniform letter postage at two cents,
hare will be falling of of revenue, if
suppositon that there Will be more, and
still 10. enough to make up for the reduction,
we can make il up in three or four par
ticui,rs, TO which We will briefly refer. We
shall lose on letters to California and Oregon by
reducing postage from six to two cents. Inc
number of letters from those States however, is
60 small that We should not lose there more tn An
sixty or seventy thousand dollars year. Ga
the other hand. there would be gain from
the following sources: l. Increase In cor
respondepce in consequence OF the REDUCTION.
2 Drop.letters, being raised to two cents.
will pay more. g. The establishment OF q
Money. Order system will increase corfespood
ence, and consequently the Post-Of,e rev.
eDue. A. The introduction Of letter-carriers
will be followed by the same results. 5. Leg
az extra charge be made on all letters ~ silei
after the Office ia closed, said charge being
always prepaid in stamps. This gives priv
lege that the public do not now enjoy. The
to send letters without way .blls-if prepaid
by stsmps-will enable us to do this, and
have bag or window open for the purpose up to
the minute the mail leaves the Office. This prac
tice Las long been in use in England. These
late letter fees" in Eng and aud Wales alone,
ptaI in thA An
$37 ,O00 They now amount to Sl2O, 900 anna
ally. Of course, no one would be compelled
to use this accommodation unless he pleased.
&. All dead letters that have been mailed with
out the postage being paid, should be returned TO
the writer's, and the postage exacted-double
postsge-as on all letters sent unpaid. No man
has light to ask the public to tax them.
selves for carrying letters for writer who
cannot get his letter to his correspondent.
We now lose about 100000 on unpaid
hostages of dead letters. Z. Let all letters be
rated by the ounce-above the FIRST ounce-in the
same manner as the European letters are now
rated This is necessary for uniformity. Call
ell letters up to half an ounce single, and from
thst to an ounce double, and then over one ounce
and less than two, quadruPle and so on, reckon
ing DO half ounces beyond the frat. This is
quicker done; it saves time in rating. Apart
from the consideration that the postage on the
heavy letters would be paid by the weather.
classes, it will be borne in mind that it is more
trouble to handle them-frequentlyit necessary
that tbey should be weighed-hence the justice in
taxing them higher in proportion to their weight
than the single letter. {. Let our little blue post
sge stamps be dispensed with, and no item
of postsge lower than two cents be recog-
pized under any circumstances. Let all news
papers and magazines that have their postage
paid periodically, have certain rate per
quarter or gear, but no single payment Of
lees than two cents. No payments should be re-
ceived in money for anything mailed; and
every thing of whatever description that is mailed
should be charged just double in case the postage
is not prepaid; or if too little is paid, charge the
that are forwarded. If prepaid to their first
destination, then charge just that rate for for
wardiDg but double the postage for the fret jour
hey, ii not prepaid, and if forwarded double
sgaip, uakiDgit qusdruple. Thisis equitable. If
letter hos been prepaid, the writer has done all
he can; sDd ifthe letter has to be forwarded, the
receiver should not pay penalty of double post
oge. Then in case letters are forwarded the
first rate will always be charged, no matter what
that rate was. 9. Charge all letters two cents
if prepaid, and have no rate of postage for any
thirg less than that, and very large number Of
circulars handbills, and advertisements that are
now cent all over the country, in unsesled en-
yeopes for one cent, with all the trouble OF mail
ing, rating, delivering and collecting postage on
them, will be made to pay two cents, aud this
will add considerably to the reyenue-for they
are very numerous.
BY adopting these simple arrangements the
people of this country may enjoy the benefit Of
just as low rates of letter postage as those of
England, while, We doubt not, the Depart nent
may be made amply able to support itself.