The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-20

The Postal Registry system---Important
Changes by the Postoface Department.
Tho Postofice Department will soon make
changes in the system by which letters are now
! registered and forwarded in the mails, 80 as to
provide for more certain conveyance Of these
letters, and more strict accountability of tost-
maste:,3 clerks, &C., to the department for the
packages going through their hands. Referring
to this proposed change, the New York Post re-
marks:
Though the adoption of the money order system
has afforded great and needed accommodation to
the public 5 mang E 81 saa 1ae % o
country, the number of registered letters forward
ed is scarcely diminished and the necessity for an
| improvement Of the system becomes more urgent
with the increase Of postal business Letters CON
tanning important information which letters it is
desirable should be registered for reasons other
than that they should be delivered without fail;
enclosures of original documents, law papers, &C..
bank checks for larger amounts than it is allow
able to send in money orders; and government
value in the hands of the holders, which properly
ought to be sent by express companies that may
be held responsible for losses- constantly COM
mitted to the mails, notwithstanding the known
imperfection of the present registry system.
masters 81 contain the following provisions Of fnte-
rest to the public: Registered letters are not to
be sent in the mails among other matter, as now,
but will be enclosed in large epvelopes-with which
every postmaster will be provided-the envelopes
to be Of stout paper, and each to constitute of it
self sort of pouch Registered letters being
placed in them, are delivered to tho mail agents,
railway postoface clerks, or other persons employ
ed by the department. who will; in each case, give
q receipt for the package taken in book the post
master is to keep for the purpose Then the agent
or clerk will deliver the package at the postofhce
to which it is directed or, that is off his route
to another agent, who will convey it onward, in
variably taking receipt for it, 30 that every man
who receives package gives his signature for it,
and he is held directly responsible for it's safety
until it has passed out Of hiB hands, fact which
will appear BY the signature he takes. At the Office
Of delivery this rule applies as fully as to that Of
mailing, or in the case Of agents on the way, the
signature Of the receiver Of the letter completes
the chain of evidence which must always accom-
panv the transmission It will be very easy to de-
tect delinquents. All packages are stamped and
numbered, and the receipts have corresponding
marks. The signature Of the last man who had
any particular letter must render the duty OF in
yestigation light and unfailing; and the knowledge
on the part OF every postofhce man that he has
given this check upon himself will cause the new
system tc operate ii not with absolute certainty,
Of least with precision which will be the nearest
approach to if.
Or course the public, as well as postmasters,
will understand that the new regulations are not
to be IN force for month OF two to come proha-
blythe earliest time at which all the blank forms
required and the envelopes can be prepared,