Post Office Arrangement.
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D.
To Ns Editor Of The Tribune:


wish through the medium of your columns to
call the attention of the public generally, and
members of Congress in particular, to some facts
IN relation to abuses of the present Post Office
Laws DO not desire to sustain the American
Letter Mail Company in their independent Pest
Office, nor to arraign Messrs. Burgess, Stringer
Il Townsend; but purpose to show that CHAs.
a. WlckLIFFE, Postmaster General OF the United
States, while he is on the one hand prosecuting
the proprietors of the {" 4. L. NJ. CO.. for infrac-
,lons of.the Post Office Laws, is himself daily
rioIatjag both the same laws and his oath Of Of
flee.


This you may think strong language but |
have facts to sustain the assertion. Messrs. Bur
CESS, Stringer q Townsend advertise that they
" have made arrangements with the Postmaster
General by which they have established Pub
fishers Nal, and will forward promptly, in the
same conveyance with the regular mail, extra
bags containing all mailable matter except let
ters.' In their Circular to Periodical Agencies
and III their advertisements, they say


We will e l953'd 70 you spst al IS hundred and
small quantities ou can bag az the mail
at the Post Office G!9 We ward bound books
bat all IleLs forwarded daily according TO the
new with the Post Office Department over The
principal mali routes Of tnE United States. You etuTn
ell orders or letters connected with the business the same
bags.


This certainly is as great q violation Of law as
any case which Mr.. WickIiffe has taken steps TO
prosecute. and far more cu upable, because CON-
mitted by a high public officer, sworn to MAINTAIN
the law as it is. Who gave Mr. WickliAe power
thus to reduce postage TO confer these prlvile-
ges on B., S. &, T. or on any body else? BY
the act Of Congress OF Sd March, 1895 and the
amendatory act of March I'd, 1927, the following
rates Of postage were established: For each
netoSpaper not out of the State where printed
one cent; ont of the State and not over one hun
dred miles, one and half cents. Magazines and
pamphlets, If published periodically, not over one
hundred miles, one and half cents per sheet:
over one hundred miles, two and half cents per
sheet. Ii not published periodically, not over one
hundred miles, four cents per sheet; over one
hundred miles, SIX cents per sheet.


The following table Will show the difference in
the postage on the works named, from New York
to Buffalo, if sent by United States Mail or by
Mr.. P. NJ G. Wicklife's Mail: