correspondence, whether for boxholder or
others.
(d.) All Local Correspondence will be
delivered exactly present
our
ma
as addressed. Under
Reshift system the rule
is to ignore the address, and deliver at the nearest plase of business,
ther
method would be practicable. Thus
letter for family, addressed to his private house,
some member of a merchants
io not delivered there, but at his
a local letter
office. It has thus sometimes happened that the only result of posting has been to place it again, after -hours, in the hands of the writer.
come
(c.) A much better delivery to Chinese, viz; hourly East of the Canton Wharf,
Jam West of it. day bound to say that Chinese have inevitably regleted. Their correspondence
and thrice a
been much
with
places
and yet.
abroad is
6 greatly mencasing, we have not been able, for years past, to secure them more than
one
one de
delivery a day.
on
484
and even
busy days, and
the evening.
Ꮽ
that perhaps not till late in the- wish I could feel that letters for Chinese have always been delivered within twenty ever complain, four hours. But they
whatever
goes wrong
Ja
(Jonly wish they
would ) and this national peculiarity
makes it impossible to prevent irregularities,
may.
(F.) It
be possible to establish an efficient Pillar Box system in. connection with the Local Delivery Scheme, and if it is it shall be done. this I have some But of the success
of
doubt. Pillar and wall boxes do not
our
seem adapted to the wants. Community . The experiments tried in this direction, as to which I hope to
submit some.
not, so far,
reo
o firges 200 hereafter, have been en
encouraging.
(g.) Lastly, the Post Office. without any
bc
open,
orin
on
would
extra strair-
already overworked staff,
indeed with some re
relief to them, for
the
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