The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-01-09 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE POST-OFFICE EXPRESS.  The followiaw piarticulars of the express delivery of letters and 'percale at reduced rates have been issued by the Post Office :—" The object of the. new Post-office Express Service is to secure the immediate delivery of messages, letters, and parcels by special messenger. It is applicable not only to local packets which may be sent from one. part of a town or district to another part direct by special messenger, without being forwarded in any mail bag, but also to letters and paroele sent in the first instance by the ordinary mails, either from one part of a town to another, or from one town or countrT district to another. Thus, to give .421'sfitlee letter thily be sent by special messenger fro in fhe CRY to Charingcross, or from Kensington to Hampstead. In such a . case the letter suffers no delay by waiting for other letters, or through any process of collection or sort a.tion ; it is carried at ence to its destination, the them occupied in delivery being merely that taken by the actual journey of the messenger. (2.) Where speed is not of so much importance, a local letter or parcel -i.e., one going from one part of the town to another, e.g., in London, from Hammersmith, W., to Cheapeide, E.C., or, in Brighton, from Kemp To.wia to -Rove.--may be posted for transmission in the ordinary course of post to the office from which delivery is to be made, and on arrival there be sent out by special messenger, and delivered from one to two hours earlier than if it were taken out by the postman. (3.) Aa express letter from Manchester to some place in the East District of 'LoAdon will to forwarded in the ordinary mail to London, but will on its arrival at the General Post Office be at once picked out from amongst the other letters and despatched by special messenger to its destination, which it will reach from one to two hours before a letter arriving by the same mail and delivered in the ordinary postnian's round. (4.) An express letter posted in London, too late for the night mail, for a village in the neighbourhood of a country town, where there is only one delivery a day, e.g., for Wilton, near Salislausy, can, on arriving at 6albibury about 8.30 a.m. in the morning, be at once delivered by special messenger instead of lying at the Salisbury Postoffice till the following morning. (5.) Where the ordinary mails do not readily serve, a letter may be dispatched as a single post railway letter, e.g., from Salisbury to London, by train, and delivered from Waterloo Station by special messenger immediately on the arrival of the train ; or it may be sent from Wilton to Salisbury Railway Station by special messenger for despatch by train and delivered in the same manner from Waterloo Station, thus securing, as rapid a transit as if the sender had despatched his own servant with the letter from point to point. The fee for the express service is in all cases 3d. per mile, and covers the messenger's expenses for travelling by omnibus, tramcar, or train. When the packet is sent Ly messenger throughout, the mileage charge covers the whole , expense of transmission up to and including a 'pound weight. The words Express Delivery' must be legibly written on the cover of the letters, and whenever a letter is to be posted at a station it must also be marked with a perpendicular line, both on front and back ; and in every case the ordinary and railway postage in addition to the express fees must be prepaid in stamps."  The interast on the Suez Canal shares, which a year ago was returned at £`241,955, has this year fallen to £222,111, a decline of £19,824. On Sunday morning the body of a soldier, named Bernard Cotter, of the Connaught Rangers, stationed at Penally, near Tenby, was found on the sand beneath the esplanade at Tenby. The cliff at the spot is about 50ft. high, and well protected. Cotter appears to have fallen over during the night, but how he got on to the cliff is not known.  A plumber named Robert Russell committed suicide the other day by throwing himself into the Liffey from the parapet of the Butt-bridge.