The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-09
WIDER MAIL
REGISTRY
Carriers Will Take
Care of Special
Letters.
NEW FORM OF THE
. POSTAL EXTENSION
Great Praise for this Division of
the Local Service From In.
spectins Official.

Immediately upon the arrival here of
house registration of mail matter will
be introduced in this city. This is the
latest of the many advantages of the
postal service, as extended to reach the
people at their homes, and will give to
the most remote resident of the city all
the advantages of specially forwarded
! matter. that are enjoyed by the people
who are close to the offices.
The house or carrier registration sys-
tenn is the outcome of the experiences or
Gen. E. c. Madden, the third assistant
postmaster general, who is a. practical
postal service official He concluded that
the advantages of the registration plan
Should be enjoyed by those who are re.
mote from the office as we'll as those
whose business makes it easy for them
TO register first-class matter So it was
that he instituted the plan of house reg
istration, making of each carrier a clerk
for the receipting for registered letters
This was designed to reach ALL and dur
ing the year in which is has been in
OPERATION has reached the women whose
desire it is to have specially forwarded
matter
The registration is carried on in a pc
culiar way The carriers are supplied
with small books containing fifty tripli-
cate receipts, one for the sender, one for
the forwarding clerk and the other for
the permanent record. On account of
the fact that there can be no carrying
about of scales, the only variety of mat
ter which can be forwarded in this way
is first class letter mail The carrier
gives receipt for the package and if the
sender has not the stamps to put on the
letter, cash may be paid to the carrier
and he will give receipt for the full
amount. returning the change on his next
trip.
The system was introduced last sum-
mer and has been great success, there
being appreciative testimonials from
women living in outlying districts, who
save time and car fare in thus being able
to forward their mail without loss of the
hour necessary to take it to the post.
| Honolulu is one Of the greatest regis
tering offices in the United States for its
size. The record is not made up, but
according to Assistant Superintendent
| O'ConneH, of the registry division,
Pest Office Department who has been
for the last week making an inspection
of the Office here, if the Americans used
the office as much as DO the Orentals,
there would be a record OF business which
would eclipse that of any other similar
office in the world. There are many
reasons for this The first one is the
business methods of the Orientals. Thus
if bill is paid, there is no receipt sent
by the Chinese, who has not come under
modern methods. So it is that the Chi
nese, finding that the return receipt of
the American postal system costs moth
ing, while there is always charge in the
| foreign service, always make their pay
ments by registered post. asking for
return receipt. and thus when they have
received the card they know that there
it no doubt of the receipt of the money
| by the creditor.
Then again, with the natural suspicion
of the Oriental, he will not confide to
the ordinary mail valuable matters such
as remittances and always pays the small
fee which insures more careful delivery
That they have reason for their faith in
! the virtue of the registry system is seen
in the reports of the Department, which
show that of the eighteen million pieces
of mail matter carried in registered
pouches during the past year, the losses
have been only 33S.
Befre the system is introduced there
will be a distribution of explanatory
cards or booklets, telling just what must
be done in securing the advantages of
the system. These are on the way here
at the present time. and the inauguration
of the service will nor he lopp 6ala1.a5