The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-12-04

To persons mailing Letters for California and the Terri
tories of Woshinqton and oregon Thousands Of letters sent
to the Pacific coast become dead letters. To remedy this eNl
the Post Office Department, under the authority of Congress, has
adopted as an auxiliary to its operations the following plan for
simultaneously publishing at each and every post Office IN the
Pacific recion.in a list called :" Pacific Mail List" the names of
California and the Territories of Washington and Oregon. BY
This system. a letter NAV be sent to any post office in the Pacific
region for a person whose location is unknown, save the mere
fact that he is somewhere i'll California or the Territories of
Oregon and Washington if the letter be published in the Pacific
Mail List, its ultimate reception by the person for whom it is
intended will be rendered highly probable. To enable those who
may desire to extend to their Pacific correspondents the adyan-
tages thus offered, the following Illustration Is given:
Suppose it is wished to send to the sacramento post othce a
letter for George Wilson, who emigrated to California from Pike
location, and hence may not receive the letter. In this case,
direct the letter to George Wilson, Gate of Pike county, Missouri
the Pacific Mail List, copy the address of the letter upon a
piece of paper or card, and enclose the card, together with a
threecent postage stamp, in an envelope to the Pacific Mai
Last, N. Y. Deposit the letter, as usual, in the man Tor CAN
fornia, and at the same time drop the envelope, containing the
the address on the card thus received at the New York post ONCE
the name, George Wilson, will be entered in its appropriate place
each and every postmaster in California and the Territories of
Oregon and Washington, and by them posted in a conspicuous
place in their respective oihces. The list thus pelng oistri1uteo
over the entire Pacific region, George Wilson may at once learn
from it that a letter for him has been sent to the Sacramento
post office. No person of a similar name viii receive the letter,
for the address on it points out that it is intended for George
Wilson, late of Pike county, Missouri. Thus MANY letters VIII
be received that would otherwise be transmitted to the dead
letter Office.
The envelopes containing. the advertising cards sent to the
paeyac ~ o LIST % New Sn aGfk' pay pay postage addrgssa nke Of G 1ettnrs so mei
on the pieces of paper or cards should be written i'll a plain and
distinct manner. The three-cent postage stamp enclosed IN the
envelopes defray the expenses of publication, and must NOT be
pasted to the cards, but simply enclosed with them. In the alb
sence of postage stamps, three-cent coins may be substituted.
1t is believed that this circular has been drawn up so explicitly
as to require no explanations but should this prove not to be
the case, postmasters will take notice that all interrogatories
must be addressed to the PGc1Hc Mat LaSt, New YORK, ana not
to the department.
The first of this series of lists will accompany the mail of May
5h, and will be forwarded by each succeeding mail.
OLIVER Il WOODS.