| Show registered letters betters the alidus operands if 7 tair tuseeir aa conveyance 6 i i i 1 JL our readers are not generally p brally aware that a new moda of sending g registered letters through the mails was wad adopted in june jane last laett under the old method eathod ot of registering adopted in 1855 an nc c cinnia was wao keptot kept at the office from w which 11 ch tlc th alc e letters sent petit andon and an reaching ike effice if f deliver delivery li 1 t th I to e pi sona to whom they were addressed addic addi saed essed were ob liged to give a receipt for them this thia system secured the safe dep girture ans of tho the office of deposit and their delivery on r at aching the office of destination to tile the to whom they were addressed but it did dia not provide pi for 1 their hafl safety ety bt between twedell th alp e two paints the fact that a letter was registered in itself a hint hill t to dishonest cl clerks rag at intermediate station that flint it wall waa worth stealing while if stolen the I 1 registry system lem failed to give the theoffice offices is s t the lie mearis means to trace the letter from froin office to office or to detect the point at which it had been stolen on tile first of june last a new system was all adopted opted nf if which the following furnis furnished bed by one who its is interested in it is a detailed account when a letter is deposited in a post office for rt registration gi a receipt i h 3 given by the postmaster or aclei bleik k it i is ii i than numbered band and the addreal becot dedin n a book kept for that purpose the letter is subsequently placed in what is known as a registered package 0 envelope which is of large liae made of stout light colored manila the name of the to which it is ia to be sent is placed on it ir together with the words registered package I 1 envelope in lai laige ge ile flutters I 1 tera the package is made so large aad can any attempt to steal one would be almost sure to be detected A return receipt to be signed by tile the person to whom it is addies serl is attached to the lettjr it is placed in ill the package en delope tile the package is then started on its jociney jou iney and wb whenever enever there shall by bu occasion to op open ri the moil bi bag in which it il is ia carried tho the I 1 postmaster or a agent ent i receiving lecci ece ving iving the envelope elope is r required to give a for it to tile pet pei son from whom lie he receives it at cuch office through ath lich ch the lie package passes I 1 this ibis system of i i is s I 1 kept up and on oil its arrival a vic fie office of destination the postmaster r opens the package envelope pe and the odthe letter he also one of if the two post bills cwb which 1 ch have lave been sent him by bythe t hes same hiie mail which he returns to the ilis ti t r at the mailing mii ling office on oil the delivery r of the letter to the lie person tu to who whom it is is addressed a receipt is taken and placed on file and the returned receipt is signed the letter is sent hint hi nt to the mailing rl postmaster who dc delivers live it tt to the berbon by whom the letter was deposited thus ab suring him of its safe delivery leb at alai a laige ge or more cherl cherka 8 are detailed to be at the open opening ilg of every mail bag whose duty it is to take alke charge of all registered package envelopes until properly disposed of and rece receipts 1 i received therefore whenever one of t these hese packages is lost which ia s very rarely what is a ll chaser is ia sent aher after it that is a blank form is ia sent cent to the postmaster of tile the office i from which ch the package started a and nd after given givena g the address missing C doe doc sends bends it tr to the official to whom lie he delivers the alio said package the letter after receiving i act ivings he statement it itlo to the person to whom hz erile livered and ahu the ihu I 1 chaser chai doaa 0 I 1 aa forward until it catches up tip to the aco office where amit take has occurred und elfere tho the package is usually found to be misplaced bcd the beame pre c to betoken betaken by the post office department in ih sending posta postage go stamps and an I 1 stain pea envelopes to the various a rious 7 1 post master B s ahe country tile the system ayau m its in connection with the money order department w is intended to give tho the public opportunities for sending money mitney bonds or oth er valuably valuable documents from one part of tile the country to another without danger of loss loaa but it is pi probable pio bable that th at most valuables will stair be cairies by the express companies who are arc res capou napou P bible for lusa loss on the way Sen dentinal |
