The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-07-28
The MniIs-City Post once.

A. Kennedy, superintendent post ONCE; Geo.
II. Plant, jr., chief asserting clerk for city de-
livery; Simeon II. Merrill, superintendent Of
money order department; s. X. Kllby, clerk OF
registry department.; James y. Bell, supcrin-
tehdent of letter carriers; Richard Lay, chief
of mailing departments Fred. Depro, special
agent
partments, from street; door east OF deliy-
Entrance TO postmsster's, chief clerks,
carriers and cashiers rooms, door west OF de-
once bours-The general delivery window
10 kept open at all hours Of the day and night,
during the entire year.
The Office 10 open from . a.. IN. to p. m,
daily, except Sunday, on which day the whole
office, excepting the Money Order Department,
Is open from sto 10 a. M, and 0 to p. m.
TINE OF AHHivLL AND CLOSING OF MAILS.
Northern and eastern mails-lst due at $40
A. m, closes at CAS- a. m; I'd due ut $40 p. m,
closes at 0 y. M.
closes at ei5 a. m; ID due at $40 p. m, closes
at l. 80 d. m; Cd closes at u. m,
Western mails, via Relay House-lst due At
$40 a. m, closes at 40 a. m; Cd due At 10 a.
mi Sd due at II a. m; tth due at OlS p. m.
Southern mails, via Orange and Alexandria
II. r., for Lynchburg, or attanooga, and New
Southern mails, Via Richmond and Frcder-
icksburg-Ist due att A. M, closes at S a. m;
I'd due at p. m, closes at $50 y. m.
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100 y. M; second due at CHS y. M, closes at
Alexandria, Va, mail--ist due at II a. M,
closes At a. MT ed due at 30 p M, closes at
Georgetown, d. O., mail-lst due at go a.
M, closes at mi Cd due at IL 30 y. m. closes
at p. m; Sd due at $50 2. m, closes at y. m
Rockville, Nd, msil-Due al p. M, eloses
.Lconsrdtown. Nd, mal-AFrivcs at Q p. m,
closes Mt p. IN.
mail-Due Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at
p. m; closes Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day at $50 a. m.
Upper Marlboro, Md, mAil-Due at y. m,
closes at $50 a. m.
Norfolk, Va, mail-lst due at IL A. NJ, closes
at 80 p. m; I'd due at p. M, closes at p. m.
the North, and two from the West, South, and
Northwest.
Malls departing on this day for these routes,
close, at p. m, and for Norfolk, Old Point
Comfort and Portsmouth, at p. IN.
POSTAL RULES.
Many errors occur by persons not observing
the following regulations In depositing letters,
papers, or miscellaneous publications for mall
ing:
Ali drop letters must be prepaid by postage
stamps. (
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 1861, or with
| revenue stamps on them, are treated as un'
mailable'' and sent to the Dead Letter Office
| An impression seems TO prevail that letters
for Georgetown only require two cents, OF
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
In mailing be avoided.
| TERRITORIAL.
| All matters conveyed by mail westward, be.
yond the western Boundary of kansas, and
| eastward, from the eastern boundary OF Cali.
fornis, except one newspaper to bona .fdt
subscriber, and franked matter, must be pre-
Postage Stamp Dcpots-Local agents for
the sale OF postage stamps and stamped envel-
places, where the public can always be sup-
| piled:
q. NJ. Robinson, corner of Tenth and N
streets; d. p. Hickling,, corner of Third and
Seventh and streets; W. u. Entwisle,
corner OF Twelfth street and Pennsylvania
avenue; X. u. Clark, corner of Four-and-a.
| half and NJ streets south; l.. Il. Bury, corner
| of Third street eaEt and i street south: B
| Ferguson, corner OF First street east and
| Pennsylvania avenue; Brown h Co, corner Of
Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue
| Z. II. Haup Co, corner of Fourteenth ant
n streets; W. $. Thompson, corner of FIT
teenth street and New York avenue; w. II
| Pearson, NO. Ia Pennsylvania avenue; +. u
bowling, corner of Four-ahd.a-half and I
streetB south.
Registry Otlce-Yaluable letters for an,
part of the United States, Holland, United
Kingdom, Italian States, Africa, East Indies
Egypt, Falkland Islands, China and Australia
will be registered onapplication at the office
Money Order Oflce-Especial attention
and cheap method of transmitting small SUM
through the mails. Orders are issued In sumi
Of not more than $50. Larger amounts can be
transmitted to the same person at the sam,
time by additional orders.
RATEs.-On orders not exceeding 40, Il
centsi on orders over eco and up to $50, 2
cents.
Free Delivcry-On the first day of Jul
the letter carriers will make four deliverie
and five collections, daily, in the central por
tions OF the city, and from two to three deliy
cries on the outside districts.
No. necessity exists for persons calling 70
their mail at the office, as this. change viii &C
commodate those who desire to receive thei
mail with promptness and dispatch.
The carriers are honest and capable, and tn
public can rely upon being served faithfully.
| The collections from street boxes will b
made frequently enough to accommodate thos
who desire to send local letters from one sec
tion OF the city to another, and they will fin
1t greatly to their advantage to use the carrie
system for this purpose.
The deliveries will he made at !, $50 a. m.
and l and p. m.
The collections at $50, Q, 10 a. m, and an
Collections from outside districts will b.
made in time for mails going North, South
and West
In making the early delivery the carrier
| anticipate much delay. This may be obyiate,
by househOlders adopting the door letter box
1t Is hoped that the citizens wi immedla tel,
provide letter boxes. by that means, at
very moderate expense, they can promote tn,
convenience OF themselves and the neighboTp
and at the same time render an important ait
to the public service.
a request for the return OF q letter to tn,
writer, If unclaimed within thirty DAYS or less
Written or printed, with writer's name, nos
office, and State across the left end Of Tn,
envelope, on the face aide, will be compile,
with.
Letters bearing such endorsements will b,
returned TO the writer free of postage,
Persons wishing their mail matter deliyere,
ny carrier Will please leave orders at the pos
, ONCE, or with any carrier.
Instructions have been given to the clerks 4
deliver no letters from the boxes except to peI
sons renting the same, or on their written OF
ders, or to those known by the clerks to be au
thOrized to receive them.
The rules OF the office, made In pursuance q
Instructions from the post office department
forbid persons not In its immediate employ, o
otherwise connected with its official trarisa,
lions, from entering upon the floor. II
hoped that no one, whatever his position, W Il
attempt to violate these rules, as they will b
hereafter rigidly enforced. The chief cler
Will answer the calls of such as have bushes
mar cannot he transacted by the clerks at tn
windows.
Persons having grievances against the Tic
on any account, will please report the fact /
clerk.
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