The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-24
ENL.iRSED MAIL FACILITIES.
speed Increased, Vast Areas Added, and
the Certainty OF Deiivcry Imrrovcd.

speed Increased, Vast Areas Added, and
| the Certainly OF Delivery Imrrovcd.
Men who arc employed in the New York Post
| ONCE now have seen during their terms OF
service the volume OF business more than
tretled. tho time to distant parts Of the earth
| reduced by days and weeks. md tho efficiency
| OF tho service increased in many other re-
spects. The changes In the foreign mail SER
vice have been perhaps tho most startling
| Not only has It increased in speed and volume.
| but it, has added vast areas to the postal map.
| Tho latest marked Increase OF speed in tho
| foreign mail service was brought about
| through tho institution Of tho post offices
| on board the ocean liners This change in the
| systcm. by enabling tho postal authorities
here to hurry incoming foreign mails
to tho railway stations without delay
ut tho general Post Office. has made
it possible under the most favorable
instances to reduce tho postal timc be-
tween London ind Chicago by at least twenty
four hours. Within II few days the mail
steamships have begun taking on mail mattcr
up to tho hour of sailing. There may yet DO
further gains by means os evolutionary de-
vices applied ut points OF transfer. Ii foreign
postal authorities could 10 induced to CO.
operate with tho United States authorities in
gaining every possible second OF time there
would be n certainty nnd speed in the intornG-
tional mail service never hitherto attained
Recent improvements In tho foreign mail
service have been brought about moro in tho
handling OF tho mail in transit than by any
actual increase of speed in their transit be-
tween points. But for tho past thirty years
the steady lowering Of ihs ocean-crossinT
record mstwr"n this country and Mnr1he. ana
has eXredlted the foreign mails At the same
time tho extension Of commcrce aud the prog
the postal service. Parts oI Africa that had
scarcely been heard Of, ton years ago arg
schedule as some south American POINTS
with winch postal !. relations have ,Hncn
TS New FOR hI rsnshcs se IT" onao ts
State in lifty-two days. 1t takes. as long to
reach some Australian ports via London.
Lrnn"i co in from thirty to thirty six days.
The next region towar,! which the .energiesof |
coast south America. 1t tales from seven !
teen 70 ,hirty;thrc days t. reach points below |
is about thirty;ihree DAYS. whio Cape Town |
may be reached IN twenty-cight. Hong Kong
IN 1hIlty-4nG; G"ylon n tW3nt;;;nin., and sier-
points in Bolivia. fhc Argentine Reiunlic ana
brazil is, pronnly greater than to any other
Sands. now II tai. nedged colony of Great
Britain, are thirty-eight DAYS from New York.
greatly since lSst. In that Year to- lost Uilic"
Depa,tnrnt allowed thirty days for the transit
2, ma' hs%een New i"tS ara ruhia Arenas
of the ports, OF, Ceylon, Now runta Arenas is
reached in Is days - hoI4s There has been
mails between New York and Asia,i. roi nts,
aud a marked s:an in tho transit betwetn New
York and towns OF the West Indies
While the speed OF the mails has increased
steadily. the certainty of dclivcry has in
crea, ed ais. Ins enormous immigration OF
gwen the, postal authorities. of tho United
States such a t!sk as those 9f no other coun
pie. som to think it necessary to put both
Naples and New YORK upon, any envelope adj
The Chinese, VINO might be expected to give
the postal authorities no end Of trouble. are
rssally not a source Of difficulty. letters. from
states come addressed in both Chinese and
In ylish and with the utmost care and accuracy
0 obtain advice nj ass stance in addressing
ctters home, 50 that fewer mistakes occur
general Post Office caused to be printed in
most of the Important modern European Ian
'pI.ges minute Instructions in regard to the
ign delivery. These Instructions were sent
. ali the steamship offices and docks and dis
,layed conaplcuousiy ut the Post Office. with
he result oi materially simplifying tue work
If tHe Post Office employees. The posters arc
'ut q! iriut now. but III view Of the Tact that
nm -raIIyn promises to be greater tuau ever
his year they may be reissued with the addi
ION nf few outlandish Oriental and semi
New York is SO cosmopolitan in reputation
ana In its commercial Relations, that nail
most remote corn RS OF tho g!noe. Members
II Stan!cy's exploring partic, kept upa cor
esp nndence with friends in New York. and
etters to the Congo Free State have ceased to
70 unusual, There i, a large missionary
nail to mi-savags parts Of Africa. and the
Increasing Oriental population Of New York is
egi -tered in the growing volume OF mail for |
he East Indies andthe Turkish possessions.
here has been great increase in the mail to
tussia since the horde IF Hebrews from tho
money order system with counties OF the |
'ostal Union has been vastly promoted by |
he sums sent by these and other immigrants |
D waiting friends abroad. Money orders from
>ew York go now to the newly established |
'ost Offices In hulf-sava. so Africa.