POST-OFFICE IMPROVEMENT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
SIR—In reference to the inquiry into the want of the Post-office accommo- dation suggested by a correspondent in last week's Spectator, I may inform you, that, as a Registrar of Births and Deaths, I received some printed ques- tions on this subject in July last : they were sent from the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Office. I send you a copy of these questions. They may perhaps be useful to some of your country readers as to the mode of applying for further Post-office accommodation. We were led to hope, from a sort of semi-official announcement made by the Morning Chronicle at the time, which you printed in the Spectator, that a Post-office was forthwith to be established in every Registrar's district having a population of five hundred inhabitants ; but we have beard nothing more of the matter.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A REGISTRAR OP BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
1. What is the name of the chief town or village included either wholly or partially in your district ?
2. Does such chief town or village contain a Post-office of any description ? (If so, answer "yes," even though the Post-office may not be within your district.) 3. If the answer to No. 2 be "yes," then say whether such Post-office is without the limits of your district ? If without, how far from the nearest part of your district? 4. If the answer to No. 2 be "no," then say what is the name of the place at which the nearest Post-office of any description is situated? and the distance of such Post-office from the chief town or village of your district ? 5. Are letters delivered (either by the Post-office or other parties) in the chief town or village of your district ? 6. If not delivered, how do the inhabitants obtain their letters?
7. If delivered, by whom are the messengers paid? 8. Is any charge made for delivery? If so, what ? 9. Are you of opinion that the extra charge (if any) could be reduced by a different arrangement on the part of the inhabitants? (It may be necessary to state that it is at all times open to the inhabitants of a district where no post is established, to appoint their own messenger for carrying their letters to and from the nearest post-town, and to pay him at such a rate as they may think proper ; or they may arrange the matter with the Postmaster in such a man- ner as may be mutually agreed upon.) 10. What is the population, as nearly as you can tell, of the chief town or village of your district ? (If only part of such town or village be within your district, state the population of such part only.) 11. Are there any other towns or villages in your district with not less than five hundred inhabitants each, which have no Post-office of any description ? If so, please to enumerate them, and state the number of inhabitants as nearly as you can in each ?
12. What is the population, as nearly as you can tell, of the whole of your dirtrict ?
13. Its extreme length and breadth, in miles ? 14. Its extent, if known, in acres ?
15. In what county or counties is it situated?
16.. What postage-charges have you incurred in this correspondence ?
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