Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1866-01-25
The POst0Glce Mr. Dennison's
Report.

The department has paid its way, carried
The lrank.d matter, sustained the magnificent
overland Pacific routes which cost eleven
hundred thousand dollars and bring in sixty
thousand, and has a surplus of 1851 ,i30 -
such is the general financial result exhibited
by the Postmaster Generals condensed, con-
else and admirable business report. The
facilities we have to furnish our late sway
ward sisters will make II deficiency next
year of near million and a quarter. This is
one of the wrongs that made the aforesaid
wayward.
The report shows practical attention to the
working details Of til" Office, aud spirit OF
progress and Improvement: Mr. Dennison
looks upon reduction Of postage to two cents,
as thing to be aimed at, and as prict cable
at no distant day We think that the ques
ton of Subsidies to ocean steamers, which has
been quite generally regarded as one to be
revived as soon as the rrlei from the war ex-
pendturcs would allow, will be settled by this
report 1t shows that our present system OF
allowing the ships the ocean and American
postage for carrying the mails, is nearly us
good for the ship as the British system of pay
ing subsidies and taking the postage, lhts
W Il leave all routes open to competition, will
relieve US from comforting a monopoly on any
particular line. which would be unjust to all
others, and would in the long run prevent the
growth of American steam ship lines instead
Of fostering it. The present system relieves
us from an entangling alliance and the crea
ton of monopoies, and is the best for ALL
The system OF money orders is growing in
use. and some increased facilities are recon-
men,led Stamped envelopes are coming into
use in place of stamps, by aid of the attrac-
ton of printing business cards upon them
Mr.. Dennison thinks it an object to furnish
stamped envelopes at the price Of the stamps,
so as 10 bring them into universal use, as tn s
will prevent any fraudulent repetition OF the
stamps II this convenience can he furnished
to the public, TO the pecnniary advantage OF
the postoifice, il will be n great Improvement
Steamship mail service has been established
with Brazil, and between San Francisco and
China and japan, touching at the Sandwich
Islands.
Mr.. Dennison recommends that prepaid
letters be returned to the writer's free OF charge,
and that letters be forwarded from one Office
to another without extra charge. In years
past we have remarked that the postoliicc
TlliPS sttHltu lO uc coici1 toi tHt CUu-
venience of the department We are glad to
notice these evidences of a regard for the
convenience Of the public as the first object
The fact has to be continually reiterated
that more than three fourths Of the dead let
ters fail through the fault Of the writer's in IL
recting them, leaving but one.fnurth to be
charged to all other causes. This will leave
hut small fraction chnrgeable to the irregti.
larities of the mails. The Postmaster General
thinks the department is too heavily taxed for
these failures through the fault of the writers,
or of the person addressed II is obliged to
pay two cents each for advertising these dead
letters. Not twenty-five per cent Of the ad-
V rtised letters are called for; in some of the
larger offices not fifteen per cent This ex-
pense is entailed by the law compelling him
10 advertise in the paper whose publisher
swears to the largest circulation. He recon-
mends the repeal of this, leaving the mode of
advertising to his discretion. Besides the re-
lief of the Postoffice from this unnecessary
expense, it would take away the inducement
to false swearing, which gives the advertising
to the most uncrupulous publisher
One of the striking facts Of the report is
that the postollice revenues were sustained
and largely increased notwithstanding the