Show TilE SPECIAL DELIVER SYSTEM A Circular front the Postmaster General Gen-eral on the Subject WASHINGTON August 12A circular relating relat-ing to the immediate delivery system which is to be put in operation in October has been prepared and will be sent lo postmasters at once After quoting section o of the post office appropriation bill which provides the terms under which the immediate deliveries are to be made the circular says It has accordingly been decided to introduce a special delivery system on the 1st of October Octo-ber 1885 fit all the postoffices at which it is permitted by law viz those at which the free delivery system is in operation and those in cities and towns having a population of 4000 or over as shown by the last Federal census Suitable supplies of these special delivery stamps will be sent tit any post office in the country which may make a requisition for them and when received they are to be taken up by the postmasterin his account current and accounted for quarterly quar-terly in the same manner as ordinary postage post-age stamps They are to be sold by postmasters post-masters in any required amount and to any person who may apply for them but they can only be used for the purpose of securing se-curing the immediate delivery of letters addressed to and received in the mails at any of the offices designated as SPECIAL PELIVBBY OFFICES Under no circumstance are they to be used in the payment of postage of any description de-scription or of the registry fee nor can any other stamps be employed to secure a special spe-cial delivery except the special delivery stamp The special delivery stamp must be in addition to the lawful postage and letters not prepaid with at least one full rate of postage in accordance with the laws and regulations must be treated as held for postage even though bearing the special delivery stamp In addition to the full postage and registry fee required by law and the regulations the special delivery stamps must be effectually cancelled at the office of mailinc in the same wav as the ordinarv postage stamp A letterbearing the special delivery stamp in addition to the lawful postage may be mailed at any postoffice in the country but it will not be entitled to an immediate delivery by a messenger when addressed ad-dressed to the postoffice to which the special delivery system has not been extended I j SPECIAL DELIVERY LETTERS I Will be delivered by messengers within the carrier limits of the free delivery office and within a radius of one mile from the post office at all other special delivery offices Postmasters at fourthclass offices are not entitled en-titled to commissions on special delivery stamps in any case No effort will be spared to expedite the mailing of letters bearing special delivery stamps addressed to special delivery offices Postmasters are urged to use all available means for furnishing the public with information with regard to the special delivery system A list of special delivery offices will be furnished to postmasters post-masters and must be conspicuously posted in the postoffice where it will readily attract public attention Signed WM F VILAS Postmaster General A SECOND CIRCULAR By the PostmasterGeneral embodies technical tech-nical instructions to postmasters concerning the above system It directs postmasters to employ the requisite number of messenger boys to insure a prompt delivery and provides pro-vides that substitute letter carriers may be employed as messengers and receive the same compensation as other messengers but in no case shall the compensation to anyone any-one person exceed 30 per month Two objects says the PostmasterGeneral must be particularly and strenously sought First the most efficient delivery possible to the service and second to bring the service up to a revenueyielding condition |