New-York tribune., 1874-03-21

| NEEDED POST OFFICE IMPROVEMENTS.
| SMALL MAILS WANTED BY EVERY YTRAIN-DErENTIoNs
IN THIS CnY-LACK OF SUNDAY FACILITIES.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: The object of the Post Office s tho sccOmmo-
daton OF tho public the receipt. transmission and
delivery of its correspondence In order to do this.
the mails should close and be transmitted at such
times in the day as will meet their wants. 1t is no
answer to the demand for an hourly mail between
New-York and Philadelphia that there is a mail SER
vice seven times or q dozen times day between
these places. There may be ten or twenty daily
mails from the New York office to the Pennsylvania
| Railroad. but what does this proyef Nothing-ex-
cept that tie local mails for the different branches
and connections on that road, which almost in
Vulnerable. require this service.
The mails from New-York to Philadelphia close at
and a. m. IL M, g. 4:SO and 1880 p. m The pub
lie have practically but two mails day, for the
mail closing at 8 leaves at 4. and is delivered
with tho mail leaving at o'clock the next morning
No one in New-York sends by the mail closing at 7
o'clock 0. IN. Two mails might be sent closing
at a. IN. and at 2:SO p m. These two cities. with
nearly million Of inhabitants each. have certainly
correspondence and mail matter enough to justify
sending it on every express train running between
the two cities.
Mails for the East via New Haven Railroad. close
at 5 q. m $780, 2:3O and D. N. There are practi-
cally but two mails o day to New Haven. with IL
trains. The mail to New Haven closes at 1:30, 2:3O,
and 9 p IN. The trains leave at and p m. 1t is.
therefore, impossible to write to New-Haven and
get an answer the same dav. This is almost ntOer-
able. If small mails were made up by everv tran
this could easily be remeded. The mails could also
close later than they do now the 130 p mail at
2:30, and the o'clock p. IN. mail at o'clock 1t is
equally impossible to obtain an answer tho same
day to letters sent to Albany and Troy. With the
number of express trains that are available, it is
very evident that in the direction of Philadelphia
Albany and New-Haven, as well as to local points
around the city, the mail service is sadly defective
and indefensibly so.
The local service IN tho city is open 70 the
same criticism. The New England mail arriv-
ing at the Central depot ct S p. M. instead
of being delivered from q sub-office in the station
throughout the upper part of the city, on its arrival
is carried to the main Office received after it has
closed and is carried back the next morning for de-
livery; 80 that letters leaving Boston for Now-York
and Washingtoniwill be delivered at the same hour
In each city. By this detention further delay is
created, for in the morning another mail arrives
from the same point, and the accumulation of the
two delays the delivery of both. BY this delay. at
least 100000 people residing in the upper part of
New-fork City are daily incommOded-a larger pop-
ulaton than are accommodated the entire line of
any one ROAD out OF New-York. for distance OF $50
miles, with the exception of terminal cities
Inc fost-Oihce In NewYork should DO kent open
constantly. day and night. aud every day in the
wook Tor tho sale OF stamps aud the delivery of lot
TORS And papers. collection should DO made from
suo ooAed and tbo hotels "a SUNDAY Afto,aoou IN