The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-09-07
The Me,,.-C,ty Post once.

II. Plant, jr.. chief asserting clerk for city de.
liveryj Simeon II. Merrill, superintendent OF
money order department; =. H. Kilby, clerk Of
registry department; James T.. Bell, superin.
tendent OF letter carriers Richard Lay, chief
of mailing department; Fred. Dcpro, special
agent.
Entrance TO money -order and registry de-.
partments, from + street; door east Of deliy.
Entrance to postmastcr's, chief clerks
carriers and cashiers rooms, door west Of de.
once hours-The general delivery window
Ia kept open ct all hours of the day and night,
during the entire year.
The office Is open from a.. m. to- p; NJ
| daily, except sunday, on which day the whole
| Office, excepting the Money Order Department,
10 open fIom to 10 a. M, and to ! p. m.
TIMEo or ARRivLL AND CLOSING or MAILS.
| Northern and eastern mails-lst due at $40
a. m, closes at G.i5 a. m; ID due at $40 y. m,
baltimore, Md, mail-ist due at $40 a. m. e.,
| closes at 645 4. m; I'd due at go r. M, closes
| at 80 y. Ini Sd closes At 6p. IN.
Western mails, via Relay House-lst due at
$40 a. M, closes at 4 30 a. nj I'd due at 10 n
m; Sd due at II a. m; ith due at O.l5 y. m,
| Southern mails, via Orange and Alexandria
4. r., for Lynchburg, Oh chattanooga, and New
Southern mails, Via Richmond and Ffeder-
ickshurg-lst due at I a. m, closes at a. m;
I'd due at p. M, closes at 20 I'm.
| Annapolis mail--lst due at II a. M, closes at
80 r. mi second due at 6l6 p. M, closes at
Alexandria, Va, maii-lst due at IL a. M,
closes at b a. mi I'd due at $50 r. m, closes at
Georgetown, d. c., MALLS. due at $50 a.
m, closes At a. m; % due at IL, sop. m, closes
at p. m: Cd due at $40 p. m, closes at 7 p. m.
Rockville, Md, mail-Due at Op. m, closes
.Leonardtown. Nd, msil-Arrives at p. m,
Port Tobacco, Piscataway, and Duiield
mail-Due Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at
( Tp. nj closes Tuesday, Thursday and sstur.
Upper Marlboro, Nd, mail-Due at . p. m,
closes at $50 a. m.
Norfolk, Va, mail-lst due at II a. IN =, closes
at 80 y. NJ; I'd due at p. m, closes at p. IN.
On sunday, only one mail Is received from
Northwest.
Mails departing on this day for these routes,
close at 0 p. m, and for Norfolk, Old Point
Comfort and Portsmouth, at p. m.
POSTAL RULES.
Many errors occur by persons not observing
the following regulations in depositing letters,
papers, or miscellaneous publications Tor mail
ing;,
Proponents by stamps required on all let
tiers to places within the United States,
Full prepayment by stamps required on all
transient printed matter, foreign and domes.
tic.
All letters not prepaid by stamps; all such as
are received In the office with stamps cut from
stamped envelopes, or with such postage
stamps as were In use prior to 1851, or with
revenue stamps on them, are treated MS "un.
I mailsble' and sent to the Dead Letter Office.
An impression seems to prevail that letters
for Georgetown only require two cents or
local rates OF postage. Georgetown being
separate office, full prepayment by three cent
stamp Is required.
by inserting the county In which the office
Is located upon all letters, many errors In
superscription might be detected and mistakes
7 In mailing be avoided.
/ TERRITORIAL.
All matters conveyed hy mail westward, be-
yond the western boundary of kansta, and
eastward, from the eastern boundary of CALI
fornia, except one newspaper to \ bona .hdr
/ subscriber and ranked matter, must be pre-
! paid at letter rates.
| Postage Stamp Depots-Local agents for
| the 81 lc Of postage stamps and stamped envel-
| opes, have been established at the following
places, where the public can always be sup
plied
q. NJ. Robinson, corner Of Tenth and N
streets; ID. y. liickling, corner OF Third and
! Seventh and N streets; W. u. Entwisle,
corner OF Twelfth street and Pennsylvania
! avenues X. Il, CLARK, corner OF fouT-and-s-
half and NJ streets south; l.. Il. Bury, corner
| of Third street east and l. street SOUTH X. b.
| Ferguson, corner of First street east and
Pennsylvania avenues Brown n Co, corner OF
| Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue,
| &. II. Haup 90, corner OF Fourteenth and
N streets W. :. Thompson, corner Of FIJI
teenth street and New York avcnuei W. Il.
! Pearson, No. ia PennsylS avenuei =. ID,
streets south.
Registry OmcC-Vsluahlc letters for any
part OF the United States. Holland, United
Kingdom, Italian States, Africa, East ludIes
Egypt, Falkland Islands, China and Australia
viii be registered onapplication At the office
Money Order bLcc-EspcciAl attention
Ia called TO the money order system ~ a safe
and cheap method Of Transmitting small sums
through The mails. Orders are issued In sums
Of not more than $50. Larger amounts can be
transmitted to the same person At the same
time by additional orders.
| RNTgs,-Dn orders not exceeding S2l, 10
Centsi on orders over t2O and up to $50, 20
cents.
Ftcc Deliycry-Ou the Hrst day OF July
the letter carriers will make four deliveries
and hNc collections, daily, in the central por-
tons of the city, and from two to three deliy.
cries on the outside districts.
their mail at the office, AS this change viii ac
% commOdaie those who desire to receive theiI
mail with promptncss and Dispatch
| The carriers are honest and capable, and the
public can rely upon being served faithfully
The collections from street boxes VIII bc
made frequently enough to accommodate those
who desife to send local letters from one sec.
tlon OF the city to another, and they will find
II greatly to their advantage to use the carrier
system for this purpose.
| The deliveries will he made At :, $50 A. M
The collections at G'3O, Q, 10 a. ~, and and
b!3O y, m.
COLLECTIONS from outside districts will bC
made In time for mails going North, south
and West
| In making the early delivery the carriers
anticipate much delay, This may be Ohviated
by houscholdcrs adopting the door letter box
| 1t Is hoped that the citizens W III immediately
provide I,ttcr boxes. by that means, at 4
very moderate expense, they can promote the
convenience Of themselves and the ncighburs,
and at the same time render an important aid
to the public service.
| A request for the return of letter TO the
writer, II unclaimed within thirty days or less,
written or printed, with writer's name, post
. | office, and state across the left end Of the
envelope, on the face side, will he complied
: with.
Letters bearing such endorsements viii hI
o returned to the writer free OF postage.
4 Persons wishing their mail matter dClvCFc,
, by carrier will please leave orders At the pos
Office, or with any carrier,
al Instructions have been given to the clerks t.
deliver no letters from the boxes except to per
sons renting the same, or ON their written or
ders, or to those known by the clerks to he All
thOri2cd to receive them.
4 The rules OF the office, made In pursuance o
- Instructions from the post office department
. forbid persons not in It's immediate employ, Ul
! otherwise connected with It's official trnnsac
hoped that no one, whatever his positium,wil
attempt to violate these rules, Ms they viii hi
I hereafter rigidly enforced. The chief clctl
7 will answer the calls of such ~ have business
that cannot he transacted by the clerks At tn,
, windows
ii Persons having grievances against the uifc
on any account, will please report the fact II
4 writing,or IN pcfson.to the postmaster or chic
| .I"rk
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