, 1857-02-13
Post O1Iice Department.

| WASHINGTON, ID. g., March 5, 1896.
| Newspapers throughout the United States will rem.
der service, in our opinion, to persons having
respondents In the Pacific region by giving cOnspc-
uous place TO the subOned circular in their respee
tive columns.
JOHN D. WELLER,
| Senate Of the U. s.. from California.
J. W. DENVER,
House Of Rep. U. s., from California.
7. HERBERT
House Of Rep. Of u S from California.
| JOSEPH LANE,
| Del from Oregon, H. H. U. 8.
| J. PATTON ANDERSON,
Del. from Washington Territory, H. r., U. S.
To Persons mailing Lstters for California and
the Territories Of Washington and Oregon Thou
sands Of letters sent TO the Pacific coest become
dead letters. To remedy this evil, the Post Office
Department, under the authority Of Congress, has
adopted, an auxiliary to Its operations the follow
ing plan for simultaneously publishing at each and
every post Office In the Pacific region, In list called
the e Pacific Mail List" tie names Of persons to
whom letters have been sent by mail 10 post Offices In
California and the Territories Of Washington and
Oregon. By this system, letter may be sent TO any
post Office in the Pacific region for person whose
location is unknown, save the mere fact that he Is
sostrheTs In California the Territories Of Oregon
and Washington II 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 advantages thus
offered, the following illustration Is given
Office letter for George Wilson, who emigrated to
California from Pike county Missouri bat Il Is feared
that he may have changed bis location and hence may
not receive the letter In this Gaze direct The letter
to George Wilson, Gate Of Pike county, Missouri,
Sacramento, California Then, In order TO publish
the letter In the Paeine Mall List" copy the address
Of the letter upon piece Of paper or card. and en-
close the card, together with Q threecent postage
stamp IN an envelope 70 The 'sPaeiic Mail Llst IN
Y. Deposit the letter. usaai, III the mail for Call
onla, and at the same time drop the envelope, con-
tanning he card 10 publiah e tfsr In the mail for
New York. From the address on the card thus 70
ceived at the New York post ONCE the name, George
WilsoD will be entered III ts appropriate place In the
" Pacific Mail List" which Is printed and sent by
mail TO each and every postmaster in California and
the Territories Of Oregon and Washington, and by
them posted In conspicuous place In their respective
Offices. The list thus being distributed over the entire
Pacific region, George Wilson may at once learn from
il that letter for him has been sent 10 the Sacramento
post Office No person Of q similar name will receive
the letter. for the address II points out that Il II
intended for George Wilson, late Of Pike county, Ms
souri Thus MANY letters will be received that would
otherwise be transmitted 70 the deadletier Office.
The enveIopes containing the advertising cards sent
to the Pacific Mail List" New York, pay postage
like ordinary mail matter, and must be prepaid. The
addresses Of letters copied the pieces Of paper
cards should he written in plain and distinct man
ner. The three-eent 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 absence Of postage utamps, three
cent coins may be substituted. -
II Is believed that this circular has been drawn up
50 EXPLICITLY as 10 require no explanations; but
should this prove not 10 be the case postmastera viii
take notice that all interoratOres must he addressed
70 the Pacific Nail List New York, and not 70 The
The arst Of this sories Of lists VIII accompany the
mail Of Nay 5tb, and viii be forwarded by each sue
' OLIVER Z WOODS.