Report of the Postmaster General, 1868 (Classic Reprint)

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from Report of the Postmaster General, 1868Another feature of marked improvement in this service is the fact that letter mail which, under the route agent system, was required to go into a distributing office for distribution, is now distributed on the railway postal cars while they are in motion. For instance, on the New York Central and Hudson River railroads, letters from the interior towns for the New England, southern, or western States, instead of being sent to the Albany, New York, or Buffalo distributing post office, causing a delay of from 12 to 24 hours, are now distributed while in transit, pouched, and forwarded on connecting railway postal routes, with no delay. And still another is the large increase of mails on all railway postal routes. The chief clerks on the Erie and Lake Shore postal cars report that since the introduction of the service on those routes the let ter mail has increased from 33 to 50 per cent. Though part of this may be a natural increase, it is believed that a large proportion of it is due to the increased facilities for sending mail from and to every office on the line, however insignificant it may be. These remarks apply equally well to all other railway postal routes where the full way service is per formed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.