Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-01
HIEN TO BE SENT BY MAIL.
Tho Time Nearly at Hand When Trav
ele~s VIII be Forwarded Like Letters.

Tho Time Nearly at Hand When Trav-
ele~s VIII be Forwarded Like Letters.
Uncle Sam carries newspapers all over
his farm for two cents pound, says the
Cincinnati Post, provided they go from
regular office of publication. If they are
transient papers, mailed as occasional
single r. sizes, they are carried for one
cent per each two ounces, or eight cents q
pound. One reason why regul"r periOdi-
Gals are carried at two cents a pound is
that they re carried in large bulk
than other mail matter, and cost less for
sorting.
IT, IN addition to mail matter the de-
partment would also carry human beings,
1t would seem thai it could be probably
done at considerably less than 2 cents
q pound. This live mail mater would
collect, sort, distribute, and deliver itself,
Jinc in these f3rr items One.half Of the
present exIersl per pound Of transporta-
ti0n Of ne papers. There would have 70
be little auditi nal exi Use for rents,
bookkeeping or Mcidentals. The amount
VI business dom would be very great. II
a 100 pound nan and his 80 pound Yali5e
required but a So stamp to settle for one
continuous passage from Gin innau to
Columbus, lOI~ ~ ClCFG4dlld, NuiCdBo3
ST. Louis, Minneapolis, New York, BOs-
ton, New Orleans, Bangor, Charleston,
Galveston, san Francisco, DenYer, Salt
Lake or Salem, our very migratory pop
ulatiOn would be on the 20 pretty much
all the while. The receipts OF the Post
Office Department would 20 up from $j0,-
100000 into the hundreds Of millions. The
expense would mount up, but at less
rate, leaving a comfortable margin Of
pront to the government.
No doubt the time is near when some
such method of mailing ones self 10 any
desired destination viii be in successful
. operation in all truly civilized countries.
| BY means OF international postal arrange
ments it will then be possible to address
/ ones self from Cincinnati to London,
/ Paris, Berlin, Constaatinopie, Rome,
| Jerusalem, Cairo, Barber, Kuartoum,
/ Melbourne, Sitka, Copenhagen or SIAM
| boul, and 90 by due course Of mail TO any
/ Of these points.
Under such an arrangement you could
/ start out any pleasant morning
with your 5-year-old Johnny and your 40
pound gripsack for Omaha. You would
saunter lei6urely down to the station and
/ deliver yourselves to the United States
mail man in the room assigned for that
! purpose. When your turn came the grip
sack would be weighed, and you wOuC
buy 60-cent stamp for 1t and stick it on
johnny would next he weighed and 30
cent stamp purchased for his 50 pounds o.
/ aYOirdupOis. Then You would be weighed
would be required to buy a - 40 STAMP
for your 100 pounds OF health and hap
piness. You would all three then be la
beled for your destn alton and be set aside
with the other human mail matter in Z
room by yourselves. You would be al
lowed to name your preference as TO route
and when the train backed IN you woulC
all be put inCo a comfortable car with tbs
other human mail 10 60 by that route
The United States route agent would
come around after the car started ant
examine the labels and cancel the stamp
You can get of and on the tram at III
stopping points as often as you like, bu
must make your journey by that train.