We have to acknowledge with thanks from the Acting Postal Secretary of the Chinese Imperial Post copy of the revised and second edition of the "Imperial Postal Guide i deen reduced in price from twenty-tive cents to ten cents per copy. The Postal Authorities evidently agree with the great Postal Reformer, Sir Rowland Hill, that some pains should be taken to make the main features of the Post Olfice system intelligible to the peoples" and since, as will have been seen from our eclunms recently, the extension of the I. P. 0. all over this vast Empire [has been recommended by the different Viceroys "ud Governors in' their memorial tothe Throne as one of the measures of reform, the re-issue of this neatly printed Postal Guide in a cheap form is opportune and timely, and a step in the right direction Even in the west the public are lament-ally ignorant of Postel rules, as may be soon by w cursory glance at' the reports, sued from time to time by the Post [Oltice officials. In the last Annual {Report of the Postmaster General for Great Britain and Ireland, it is stated that the tetel value of property found in undelivered letters which had to be opened the Returned Letters Offices was £725,613, Articles found loose in the Post' hind increased during the last four years by nearly 80 per cent. The number of Postal packets posted without address during th+ year under review was 288,607. In 2,767 of the unaddressed letters were found cash and bank notes to the value of £136 and no less than £9.628 in bills, cheques, money orders and postage stamps. And this in spite of the pains taken by the Post Office in issuing cheap literature containing information on every branch of Postal business Any effort, therefore, to enlighten the peerie and help them to understand the Postal system, and remove misconception regarding an institution which is: destined
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