The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-11-22
NEW POSTAL. Observation-Disclosures &c
PERSONS WRITING TO CALIFORNIA

Many who write letters to California that
simple, but at the time most effective, system Of
registration has been sanctioned by the Post Office De-
parment which places in the power of the person by
whom letter is written 10 render the safe well as
speedy delivery of the same matter of almost absolute
certainty in all cases where the person for whom the letter
is intended is anywhere in the Pacific region and is
willing 10 take letters of the post office. Circulars de-
scriong the system recently sent to many of the
principal post Offices but many mistakes have been made
by those disposed to avail themselves of the advantages
the PLAN that the department has authorized the issuing
several thousands of slips to the frsclass officers upon
which the system is described plainly that child may
understand it.
1t consists merely in sending to the New York post office
slip of paper upon which is copied the address of the
letter you have just deposited in the mail The slip of
paper should be fit envelope loosely, and must be
enclosed without folding together with threecent post
age stamp prepaid envelope and directed to the "Pa
cifc Mail List" New York post office. The address on
the slip Of paper thus received at the New York post Office
will be entered in its appropriate place in the Pacfc Mail
List" which list is printed apd being sent by each mail
each and every post Office in California and the Terrific
res OF Oregon and Washington win point out to those
persons whose letters published therein the post Offices
which the letters person may thus At
receive intelligence Of letter that has been to post
Office FIVE five hundred miles away, which otherwise in
all probability, he would have received he may
also change his residence in the Pacific region often
motives of busiRess pleasure dictate and yet run
risk thererom Of losing his letters provided his friends
home have thought proper to register the in tie
"Pacifc Mail List"
Observe il is only the address Of the letter that be
slip OF pepper together with three-cent postage
stamp Ia a prepaid envelope to the "Pac6c Mail List
New York post Office the letter itself must be deposited in
the mail as usual precisely il such system Of regis
tration was in operation No other writing should be
on the slip paper than the address Of the letter aud the
slip should be enclosed in the envelope without folding
The hree-ccu postage stamp enclosed in the envelope
deays the expenses Of publication and must not be past
ed, but simply enclosed
When sending the address Of letter to the aPacifc
Mail LIST be careful TO the post Office in the Pacific
region to which the letter sent Instances have
CURED ia which this important point has been omitted In
minute letter be registered and the threecent
charge for registration added to the postage the enye
opO cent to the "PAcc Nail List makes the total extra
cost six cents or course when two addresses
enclosed In the same envelope and the postage is thereby
divided tho charge becomes PrOpOronay loss but the
utmost cost FOR registration Is about equivalent The
price Of Havana cigar.
Before leaving the subject will state that despite the
law requiring the prepay ment Of postage hun
red and twenty thousand letters during the past year
to post offices in the Pacific region received By
the persons for whom they intended and consequent
y became dead letters causing thereby doubtless much
anxiety Of mind to persons expecting letters from home
and rendering all the devoted TO writing the letters
and the thousands Of dollars paid in prepayug postage
on the same much useless expenditure Averaging the
time necessary write the above letters at thirty minutes
each q low rate we Think and the result Is that It will
require ten hours daily labor Of penman FOR twenty
years to write the letters that became dead during the past
year in the Pacific region and which cost government
four thousand dollars 10 examine and selecting the few
valuable ones from The MACS the lin accordance with
law and the usages Of the Post Office Department. to
burn
Oliver Evans Wood ESQ., IL the protector and manager
OF this plan whose request cheeruly give place
the above explanation.