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Local Posts on Edinburgh
LOCAL POSTS ON EDINBURGH.
Box
closes at
4.45 m Balerno,
3 a Ditto,
4.45 ra Broxburn,
4.45 m CoiintOD,
3 a Ditto,
4.45 m Corstorphine,
3 a Ditto
4.30 m Cramond,
3 a Ditto,
4.45 m Curi-if,
3 a Ditto,
6 m Dalkfith,
3 a Ditto,
6 m Ford,
3 a Ditto,
4.45 m Herraiston,
11.30 m Ditto,
•ii a Kirkliston,
8.45 a Ditto,
4.45 m Kirknewton,
11.30 m Ditto,
ti m Lasswade,
.H a Ditio,
6 m Liiiberton,
LATE DELIVERY OF LETTERS. — Representations having been made of the time occupit>(l
by the LETTER CARRIERS in the DELIVERY of their LETTERS tlirongh the City, the incon-
venience has been ascertained to be in a great measure, if not entirely, attributable to the delays expe-
rienced by the Carriers at hall-doors, owing to servants not answering the bells ; and in some cases,
by the servants not being provided with money to pay the postage. Instructions have been issued to the
Letter Carrier.s to rap or ring at each knU-clnor twice, pausing an instant. The application of the Carrier,
therefore, cannot be mistaken ; and the public are earnestly requested to aid the Post-master-General
in his lordshij)'s ansiety to expedite the general delivery of the corresponcience, by obliging servants to
answer immediately the Carrier's application, and to have the servant previously provided with sufTuient
sums to discharge their demands. The increase of Letters, and the reduction of postage, render it im-
perative on the public not to delay the Letter Carriers on their walks. Positive orders have been issui^d
to them not to remain at hall-doors where servants are unprovided with money to redeem letters. It is
particularly recommended to proprietors of houses and shops to supply themselves with open letter-slips in
their hall-doors. If they were to be generally adopted, the delivery of letters would be very greatly
accelerated ; and nothing would more effectually contribute to the rapid distribution of the public corre-
spondence, than that individuals who reside in common stairs, and whose residences hav-e bells suspended
to the street doors, should direct their servants to meet the Letter Carriers ou the stairs, and receive
their letters from them.
PAID LETTER OFFICE— Hours of attendance from 6-45 a.m. till 10 p.m.
PRIVATE BOXES — By authority of the Post-master-General. — Parties who may wish to have
their letters earlier than they can be delivered by the Letter Carriers in the regular round of their de-
livery, can be accommodated with Private Boxes, at the Paid Letter Office, (for which a fee is charge d,)
where they can receive their letters by the different mails as soon as sorted; and likewise on Sundays at •
all hours during which the Paid Letter office is open.
MONEY ORDER OFFICE.
For the security of sums of Money not exceeding £o, the Postmaster-General has authorized an
extended system of Money Orders. An Office is open daily (Sundays excepted) from 10 till 4 o'clock,
where orders are issued, (payable at sight) on the Postmasters in Scotland, England, and Ireland, at
the follovFln"- rates of charge : For orders to the amount of £2 and under, the sum of 6d., aLd for
orders amounting to any sum between two and five pounds. Is. 6d.
The public are strongly advised to adopt thi.s mode of tran^smission of small suHis of monoy,
rather than risk tlie enclosure of sovereigns and other coins ; and as it is now impossible to enter
cash letters in the mode formerly customary, the Money Order OfHce is the only certain and safe
channel by which mnney can be sent from one town to another.
The Secretary's, Receiver-General's, Accountant's, and Dead Letter offices, are open from 10 ra. to
4 a., Sunday excepted.
BANK NOTES, BANK POST BILLS, DRAFTS, &e.
The most secure mode of transmitting Batik Notes, Bank Post Dill«, or Drafts, is to divide each, and
send the halves by different posts, waiting the acknowledgment of the one half before forwarding the
BOTTLES CONTAINING LIQUID, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF A BRITTLE NA-
TURE, should not be forwarded through the Post, as they are almost invariably broken, either by the
operation of Stamping or by the friction of the Mail diaches. It is besides improper so to transmit
such articles, as by arccidents to them, the seals of Lf-tters in the bsgs may be damaged, the Letters
mutilated, or their addresses entirely effaced. For sitniiar reasons, artioles having sharp or hard edges
fihouldnothe transmitted through the Post.