The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-04-02

STATES POST OFFICE
MENT.

WAsHNGroN, D. c., March 5, 1856.
NEWSPAPERS throughout the United States win
pondents in the Pacific region, by giving conspicuous place to
the subjoined circular in their respective columns.
JOHN B. WELLER,
j. J. " Y DE n 3 oan'0r0ia
House Of p Rep 4. H 4 RI dE4n California.
"0D'' " JOS JOSEPH LANE,
De: J: f PArG HoSs0 &s 4; r. Sss,
Del. from Washington Territory, II. R., US.
tories of Washfngtom and Oregon Thousands of letters sent
to the Pacific coast become dead letters. To remedy this evil
the Post Office Department., under the authority of Congress, has
adopted a $ an auxiliary to its operations the following plan for
i,%GHs" reeton' in p9 a list eails e ! e %Pa shS M sEady L pe;' t SheG names m se Of
persons to whom letters have been sent by mail to post offices in
this system, a letter may be sent to any post Office in the Pacific
region reg 1h i1r "a a person whose location is unknown, save the mere
Oregon and Washington if the letter be published in the Pacfc
intended will be rendered highly probable: To enable those who
tages thus offered, the following Illustration is given:
Suppose it is wished to send to the Sacramento post Office a
county, Missouri, but it is feared that he may have changed his
location, and hence may not receive the letter. In this case,
direct the letter to George Wilson, Gate of Pike county, Missouri
Sacramento, California. Then, in order to publish the letter in
piece of paper or card, and enclose the card, together with a
three-cent postage stamp, in an envelope to the Pacific Mait
forna, and at the same time drop the envelope, containing the
the address on the card thus received at the New York post office.
the name, George Wilson, viii be entered in it's appropriate place
In III T0cyHe q LIST, WHICH Is printed n sen by mail 70
each and every postmaster in California and the Territories of
Oregon and Washington, and by them posted in a conspicuous
place in their respective offices. The list thus being distributed
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 ofhce, No person of a similar name win receive the letter,
for the address on it points ont 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
Pacific Mail List, New York, pay postage Ike ordinary mail
matter, and must be prepaid. The addresses of letters copied
on the pieces of paper or cards should be written Ia 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, threecent coins may be substituted.
It is believed that this circular has been drawn up $ explicitly
as to require no explanations but should this prove not to he
the case, postmasters will take notice that all interrogatories
must be addressed to the Pacific Hail List, New York, and not
to the department.
The first of this series Of lists will accompany the mail of May
9Th, and will be forwarded by each succeeding mail.
OLIVER e WOODS. {.