The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-07

TO rsE EDITOR OF The HERALD.
We learn with pleasure that question Of establishing
Post Office under the serious cousidera
ion OF the present able Postmaster General The
ana wishes OF up population have been loas
overlooked in this regard and trust for the genera
benefit Of several hundred thousand inhabitants who's.
numbers rapoIy increasing, that an up town Pos
Once Will be longer refused them. II s the DOLLY
way by which prompttude the receipt and delivery
letters DC attained, together with that degree Of
from Dsoonsi Post Office Department like Wash
gton Without going INFO tne grievances ur der
The w Town population suffer W. give under the follow
ag numerals Of the leading advantages which
woua accrue from the establishment Of up Post
Office
L., VI suppose the up town Post ONCE already establish
ed as proposeo. Ir advantages would be follows
That letters arriving IN the CITY At Twenty seveDth
street a1d Fourth avenue Oh Ihr arss street, BY tas
portefnor eastern mail liDes could easily DO csroa
a. the window or from txes In forty i've uuses sf,er
uas iIs'is arrive .. either or the potpp "a ned
--s all letters 20 arriving would be distributed By
carriers hioeen al the dissrcn above Fuurtserih scet
tn Eity Dnth street hours after their arrival 70
tbofe Who Cesre them that Oil letters would reach
,ber esnston within two hours aud always the day
g. Ms'is for up town by the Erie and New Jersey rail
ROADS would reach the up town Office 10 than forty
minn,es after tney reach the New York Shore and wou
Dc feAcy iur oenvrTy she window or from Doxes in
dirty minutes after, sna sL6S OF them required
w"olo p v,stuuIed by carriers within two hours sta
isebpg The City and always the dag OF their arrival
Letters TO be mt OF by the Eastern and Northern
mails from town Post Office could be received or
AIRED VI within fifteen minutes OF the tme they leave
the city by the Eleventh and the Fourth avenue mail
trains.
6 Mails for the New jersey and Erie roads might be
received at the up town Office and mailed up 70 within
by minutes Of the moment the mail trains by tnese lines
lsave the c,,y.
G. City letters deposited in the Office would be dsiri
buisd throughout the Post Office Limits, say from Four
teepth street TO Fifty ninth street, every two hours
throughout toe day from A. H. " o p. N
4 Cry letters destined u pass through the lower Office
could easily be sent Gown every half hour and
letters Ceoar street oce destined for disribu
ton from the up Office would be brought up every
half aud distributed every two hours So that let
ters within The upper district might easily be exchanged
between correspondents four times every and those
through the lower Office three times every day.
MAILS to be sent of by steamers could be kept open
till within forty minutes Of their departure from the CITY
9. Mails received cy steamers would be ready for dis
trbuon al the town Office In one hour, eksiy afser
thsir arrival in the city.
TO- All letters addressed 10 the up TO w Office would
go through tDe present New York Post Office such Of
theLi ae should be sen up town, would III the up
i6wn office less tnsD hour after they received al
CetSr street.
IL The up town Office being in the centre of the popu
laion cond be open 70 great public advantage till
O'Clock every night, and within certain hours Sundays
II The floating PopulaiIoD without established
Known residences throughout the city, would be apt TO
their letters 10 the up o~n cice, being
accessible ,hsn that OF the end Of the sand and
49, The facilities thus Afforded 70 the up town populs
lion would doubtless suppant numerous private post
Offices, add at the scme tune afford an ample return 70
TIT treasury ano above the expenses required for
lie support Of an up town Post Office.
We rill not go into an examination as to how far
short Of the above the present system of post
office accommodation actually FALLS consequence Of
shape Of the island and the remoteness Of the
population Of all the upper wards from the Post
Office me merchants must have their Pos. ONCE in the
Of commercial affairs, which present
The great or people, resident from tao
half miles above Cedar Street, have equal
rish. 70 the faculties they have 20 long solicited
i. N.