The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-02-05
MISCELLANEOUS.
STATES POST OFFICE DEPART
MENT.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 5, 1856.
throughout the United States will
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the subjoined circular in their respective columns.
JOHN b. WELLER,
Senate of the U. s., from California.
J. w. DENVER,
House Of z REP i. Il Fl 3 dFGH California
JOSEPH LANE,
j. PATTON ANDERSON,
Del. from Washington Territory, ii. r., [. S.
tn Dersons mail,nq Letters for California and the Terri
tories of Washinqton and oregon Thousands of letters sent
to the Pacific coast become dead letters. To remedy this evil
the Post Ofice 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 region, in a list called Pacific Mail List" the names of
persons to whom letters have been sent by mail to post offices in
California and the Territories of Washington and Oregon. By
this system, a letter may be sent to any post office in the Pacific
region for a person whose location is unknown, save the mere
Oregon and Washington if the letter be published in the Pacfc
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 advan-
Suppose it is wished to send to the Sacramento post Office a
letter for George Wilson, who emigraed 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 Mai List, copy the address of the letter upon a
piece of paper or card, and enclose the card, together with a
Last, N. Y. Deposit the letter, as usual, in the mail for Cali
card to publish the letter, in the mail for New York. From
the address on the card thus received at the New York post Office
the name, George Wilson, will be entered in its appropriate place
in the Pacific Mai 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 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 office. No person of a similar name will 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 will
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 like ordinary mail
matter, and must be prepaid. The addresses OF letters copied
on the pieces of paper o cards should be written in 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 he
the case, postmasters will take notice that all interrogatorieS
must be addressed to the Pacific Mail 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 Z WOODS.