New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-06
Pestomee Alxster,es.

The public not unfrequently is in the habit OF
throwing upon the employees in the postonce tle
charge OF carelessness in the Transmission Q, let
ters-often, no doubt, unjustly; but me plane
sometimes lies at itssown door This is illustrated
in very striking manner BY q rev % VIZ tSetnt
annual reports OF the postmaster general OF treat
Britain.
con one occasion, y one of these reports says,
| * a gentleman al Westmeath complained bitterly
tn tbe posts authorities that letter, containing
! notes and bills for f40o, had not been delivered
Altar world of trouble, the letter was found safe
| in drawer belonging to the person to whom it
was addressed, and to whom it had been really
delivered
"An important letter having miscarried, a
clerk was examined as to whether he had posted
it; he solemny aVerred he had and honestly he
lteyed what he said; but happening to put his
hand in his pocket while he was speaking, there
was the letter
"a check for Rl2 not forthcoming at the proper
time, was found (after much anxiety and waste OF
Tune on the part of the postal authOrities) to have
been innocently sold among scraps of waste paper
TO papier-Inache manufacturer to make into tea
trays. letter containing halves of two el0 notes
was dropped on its way to the postofiee, andlost
but the finder happening to be honest, transmitted
it to the proper owner. Another letter, delivered
at music shop, was heedlessy wrapped up by a
lady in roll of music, and carried away, a fact
which was not ascertained until the postofice had
been much worried and pestered about it. Many
letters of which non delivery was made matter Of
street-duor leter-bOXes. In one case, where the
letteFbox was out of order, fifteen letters one
much as nine years old, were found between the
box and the door,
"a bank agent sent his son to the postoffiCe to
receive a letter containing valuable Enclosures;
the boy did so but father and son were wonder
fully forgetful, seeing that the letter with inclo-
suresvalued 4l500 found its way to school. and
there remained unnoticed till the next holidays
A letter containing negotiable bills for fl2OO was
given to a boy to post; he transferred it to
another boy, with penny TO buy a stamp this
second boy spent the penny in taffy, and tore up
the letter to escape detection the pieces of paper
found in the field being the means of unwilling the
young rogue. A money letter was sent from one
part of Ireland to another, but being fastened
with very soft wax, it stuck to another letter
directed to Nova Scotia, and made double voyage
across the Atlantic before reached the hands of
the proper person.
Lord Chancellor Cranworth on one occasion
complained to Sir Rowland tthen MIR. Rowland)
Hill shat letter of great Importance had not
reached him he afterward found it buried under
heap Of papers on his own table. A ESQ note
was put into a letter, and another letter placed
beside it; each letter putinto the envelope in
teuded for the other, and an honest postmaster,
with fifty years. good service TO back him, was
driven nearly wild with anxiety at the confusion
this blunder on the part Of the sender occasoned.
In 1858 the most experienced officers in the home
and western districts of the postofice WERE at
great expense Of time and trouble, engaged in
mysterious case of non delivery Of letters; it
proved to be the work of a boarding house miss
clumsy but most disgraceful plot to get home.'