The Athens Post

Post Office Matters.—From all appearances many improvements will be effected during the coming year, in postal arrangements in the United States, as well as in adding security and certainty to the transmission of valuable missives through the post office. Such a systematic improvement has for some time back been needed in this country. It has been proved that the letter-registry system has not secured safety of transmission amid the present vast array of postmasters, assistants, clerks, route-agents, railway officials, and carriers connected with the post office. Hence it is supposed that a plan for issuing postal money orders is in contemplation. In furtherance of the money-order system, which works so satisfactorily in England, the Philadelphia Press says:

"During the last fiscal year the Department spent over $65,000 in endeavors, for the most part unavailing, to ferret out depredations.—With a system of money-orders, the saving on this point alone would more than pay all the expenses of the arrangement—honest men would no longer incur unjust suspicion, defaulters would at once be detected, and their sureties made to pay, and the result of the measures would be an immense convenience to the public, a steady revenue to the Department, and a removal of the heavy disgrace which the insecurity of the mails now inflicts upon the national character."

It is also stated that the Postmaster General will, under the authority given him by the acts of 3d March, 1845, 1851, declare the streets of Philadelphia, New York and Boston post routes. This is with a view to abolish the various penny-post offices in those cities under the control of private individuals as well as to reduce the charge for city delivery of mailed letters from two cents to one.