New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-26
TEE MAIL sERVI0E TO PERU

MERCHANTS COMPELLED TO MAKE PRIVATE Ar
RANaEMENTs-A TKLL-TALE ENVELOPE.
Postmaster Pearson recently stated that he
had received complaints from any large houses trans
acting business along tho Western coast OF sonsI
America regarding the transmission OF their mall matter
For some months these merchants took ADVANTAGE Oh
the facilities provided By the Posto1nce Department
supposns that the change Of route from the Pacific
Mail 10 via New-Oreans" or via Kingston I" would
NOT mako difference Of more than three or four dNa
Thsy soon learned however through their correspon-
dents in South America that their letters arrived from
TAI days TO two months ater than goods dispatched on
Pacific Mail steamers from this port and made private
at greatly increased expense By whicn
their mail matter could have a. early delivery - their
merchandise
Daniel H. Davis OF No 10 South wIlliamat. repro
senting Davis Brothers, Of Lima Peru. yesterday
showed an envelope which had contained letter to his
house In Peru and which IL ample testimony OF the In
efficiency of the mail service between New'York ana
that country The postmark the envelope indicates
that &c was received ut the NewYork Post ONCE April
15 and a. tho foreign mall post Office schedule had an
pounoed that the steamer Foxhal. sailing from New
Orleans would transport all mail received on that dse
i. wa. marked wi. NeworieAn." Tho letter reached
NswYurk where remained In the Post Office until the
ma, nay sn Nay
forty day: 10 tr.yslns distance ordinarily c0s
s hs attention Of Pearson BY whom no was
that ro.S :d IL the
TO Colo a. neoesstane the return OF your letter.
Office for dispatch via Kingston. Jamaica" "Laciiiy
the envelope merely contained tissue copies OF isE
terday but thu. is only INSTANCE of many. ON
one occasion had worked late to tho night to prepare
INV mail for OF OF the fruit lines BY WI leu
the malls advertised TO be sent the following day
The morning learned upon scanning the P"se
indefinitely postponed. After the usual red tapo
S.S Permitted spds.r %ay So. Of "y the mail:
for southern Pacific port: are shipped from here se
auer o: which ia very Irregular in its sanes. aud the
passage consumes about seven days Az Jamalca tae
,oMch,ns at that port OF vessel Royal Mail or
some other OF the foreign lines stopping there on route
to the thirty--isht ports between Panama and val
paraso touched by the steamers OF the Pacific steam
time at Jamaica TO trust the arrival sooner or later
foreign vessel to give II another litt nave no
think for the preservation of tue commerce
Of south America van o sa' ,bs
should give tho Pacific Mail people fair compensation
compriIinr that company TO carry them, At present.
our nail IL condei to private hands to be carried 10
Michael Grace OF W. R. Grace & Co.. said that HI:
firm liza long up IS HOPELESS tho making OF
P"cnc coast aud had started little mail route OF their
Their letters are enclosed In private rag anu IN
steamer or private messenger and posted at Panama
Joseph AsOstin OF No. 20 Benver-st.. SENDS MS man
nv Wells Fargo & Co.'s express to Panama "a DO DE
Cas- 70 Co., OF No 81 Wlllamst. The average cost OF
transmission IN this way 10 about 80 cents
a letter as against Gents postage irom
Nrw.Ynrk De Castro 20 coinpiau tnas
the delay In the transmission OF their letters when
they used the mails caused considerable loss 10 them
the strict ;uaons IN vogue III south hnoa
can custom houses Because the Invoices were NOT on
hand when the goods arrived the customs author'uss
placed Valuations them OF from 10 10 20 per cent IN
excess OF their actual value and the cona1neca heid tho
consignors responsible for tho difference.
Pc ma.ler Pearson said that the fact that merchants
were sending their correspondence from this port Dy
prs.s and privit messengers was news TO MIN. no
had not received more half dozen complaints re-
cartlng the south American service and these he had
forwarded 10 Washington.