Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-24
LONDON HAS SUNDAY
P0ST0FFICE SERVICE
Institution Informs Public How New
Departure May Be Taken
Advantage Of

LONDON, Jan. 23.-It will be inter-
esting to see in the course of the next
few weeks the extent to which the pub
lie will make use of the new postal
and telephone system for the delivery
of messages in London on Sunday,
which the postoffice inaugurated on
January s.
The new system may be briefly sum
married. as follows: Any person with
out the London postal area who desires
that message shall reach some one
within that area on Sunday may now
effect this through the ordinary me-
dunn of the post, provided that the in
tended recipient of his message is on
the telephone. He must post his letter
in time to catch the night mail to Lon
don-Which time, of course, varies in
different localities and may sometimes
be extended by payment of late fee
and he must address it to the central
telegraph office, London, e. c. 1t is
imperative also that he inscribe the en-
velope For telephone delivery on Sun
day." and draw a conspicuous perpen-
dicular line across the center of each
side of the envelope. The letter must
bear the usual stamp. With the mes
sage itself the sender must state the
name and telephone number of the
person for whom the message is in
tended and must also state his own
name and address.
The charge for transmission of the
message by telephone will be 6 cents
for not exceeding thirty words and 6
cents for each additional Thirty words
or less. A message of thirty-one words,
therefore, would cost II cents, as would
also one of sixty words. These charges
must be prepaid by stamps affixed to
the paper containing the message. No
special form is required. The same let
ter may contain messages for more
than one telephone subscriber, a sepa-
rate fee being charged for each.
1t is left for the sender to decree at
what hour the message shall be tele-
phoned, and he may name any time
he pleases. If he does not specify a
time the message will be telephoned at
$3.50 a. M, but in any case 1t VIII not
be transmitted before that hour. If
the call meets with mo reply" the post
office will continue to ring up" at
short intervals until the subscribers at
tention is gained. If no communica-
ton is established Sunday the message
will be telephoned Monday.
1t does not matter whether the adj
dressee has the postoffice or national
telephone company's installation, and
although the regulations use the word
subscriber" it may be taken that any
one in the district may receive mes
sage, provided that the actual subscrib-
ers name is stated by hessender.
The new system originated in the I'm
telligence department" of the general
postoffice. 1t is believed at st. Mar
tin's-le-Grand that it will be of service
to business men resident in the SUD
urbs, who may wish to receive letters
Sunday morning from their country
n
arises whether Londoners may also
make use of the system. Many tele-
phone call offices or boxes are closed
in London Sundays and for anyone VINO
is not a telephone subscriber 1T might
well be more convenient to write a
"postaI and telephone letter Saturday
night than to go out and telephone
Sunday morning. The department mas
not yet taken this question into con
sideration. In any case, the popularity
of the system is strictly limited by the
number of persons who are telephone
subscribers, which is very small pro-
norton of London householders.
The new scheme provides the nearest
approach to a Sunday postal delivery
which London is likely to enjoy, or as
some NAV prefer to express it, endure
There are actually three other methods
NV which a provincial may communl-
cate with a Londoner sunday through
the agency of the postoffice. He may
of course, telephone. This is no DOUBT
the simplest way. But trunk calls are
extensive, and one or both of the COM
municating parties may not maze ac-
cess to the telephone. Then he may tel
egraoh. This he can do from all couh-
trv postal telegraph offices between tlle
hours of 8 and 10 on Sunday morning.
The telegraph rate. however, of Twelve
words for 70 cents and cent additional
for each word suffers by comparison
with the new combined post ana tele-
nhone arrangement. There is yet
third way. and that the only one by
which a letter can be sent through the
most and delivered in its own corporate
reaIitv to the addressee in London or
SUNDAY. This is the way known as the
@exnress delivery" From the fact that
only about twenty letters are thus de-
1ivered in the London postal area on
Sunday morning it may be inferred
that the public is either ignorant OF
the existence of the system as applied
to Sunday, or has practically no use
for it or regards it's cost as prohibi-
tive.
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