New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-09
CITY LETTER DELIVERY.

Perhaps there may be people who are in the habit
Of ,ionay dropping letters into stations A. B. c.
d. f., in different sections Of the city int, Of
the numerous boxes set up in groceries aud
spothecsry shops TO attract customers, who really
sappose tba. we have City Delivery because they
hear poihipg Of their letters. But unfortunately
il often happens that neither do those TO whom letters
are addressed ever hear Of them. The truth is We
have Ciy Delivery of letters by the United States
Post.Ofics worthy OF the In fsc,, it is worse
t,an none. AL these stations are merely stations
for some of the tools Of the Administration rewards
for political service. TIE sys.em serves merely as q
trap to deude those who believe they send let
ter from part Of the cry TO another, by paying
twothrc. Of the postage of to the remotest
parts Of Minnesota. But let US give facts.
Having occasion recently to serd letter from the
Cooper building to The TRIBUNE Ofics we sent
boy vita i, to Stat on ID. Of the United States
Mad, 10 the Bible, House building directly opposite.
II was then $40 clock o. q July afternoon. The lad
returned with the information that it WAS "too lac
for to-day We could barc believe pslpsbls an
alb, urd ty that 10 the very middle Of business day
delivery could be closed til! the next morning
So pr.suniog that there some blunder committed
BY the boy We called psrsonsly with the next letter
having occasion TO send every week between 3
and oclock. We assured by the official in
charge that they could not engage 10 deliver any
letters after ocl OK except those which were to go
to the Post Office for the MALI and which would be
cert down at = o'clock"
Such is the management Of the Offices for city de-
livery Of letters. IL is impossible to get letter
from Eight street TO The TRIBUNE Office, a.the City
Hall Park mile and half dis Ant after O'Clock,
though there still remaining hours Ct broad
suo.lieht While letters for the mails would only go
down 20 Nassau street, at O'Clock to remain there
till the morning mail: were made up. Is there any
necessity for this delay There are two lines n ~
ear passing door If this station ID" every three
TO FIVE minutes ard smart, active boy, that could
BE- hired for 81 week, could take the letter. town
TO the Nassau street Post Oie. every III hodr. This
al less should be done from clock IN the morning
TIL 10 at night ard every letter deposited between
those touIs hould be purctd,y delivered a. it. place
Of cestts,iOp, il in New-York, Brooklyn, or jersey
City or in any Of the villsge. within sn hours ride
Of this city Tie Post-Oiice Department certainly
should give such facilities would enable who
cone. TO town every morning, from a distance that
may De Travelled in an hour, to get letter home to
BIS family some Ebst sooner than carrying j. himself
vhsr AeietuIIs al ght.
With greater facilities, perhaps for frequent and
rsId distr button ofetier. and around tai. rea GEN.
ter Of commerce than auy other city in the world we
have worse syst'm ofdelyery than exists anywhere.
II s notorious that there is 10 certainty that letter
Will be delivered, within the city, in less than twenty.