In Order That The Advantages Of The Post-Office Should Reach All
Persons, The Delivery Of Letters Should Extend Not Only To Towns,
But To The Country Also.
In France all letters are delivered free.
However remote may be the position of a house or cottage, it is not
too remote for the postman.
With us all letters are not delivered,
but the exceptions refer to distant solitary houses and to
localities which are almost without correspondence. But in the
United States there is no free delivery, and there is no delivery at
all except in the large cities. In small towns, in villages, even
in the suburbs of the largest cities, no such accommodation is
given. Whatever may be the distance, people expecting letters must
send for them to the post-office; and they who do not expect them,
leave their letters uncalled for. Brother Jonathan goes out to fish
in these especial waters with a very large net. The little fish
which are profitable slip through; but the big fish, which are by no
means profitable, are caught - often at an expense greater than their
value.
There are other smaller sins upon which I could put my finger - and
would do so were I writing an official report upon the subject of
the American post-office. In lieu of doing so, I will endeavor to
explain how much the States office has done in this matter of
affording post-office accommodation, and how great have been the
difficulties in the way of post-office reformers in that country.
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