The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-09

Postal SERVICE OF THE NORTH GERMAN UNION
The report of the Chancellor of the Union to the
North German Diet details at length the operations
of its postal service during the year 1868.
The North German postal service extends over an
area of 1851 German square miles, with 30,416036
inhabitants, 1000 per square mile Census OF De-
cember g. 1860 Of these 49, l5O live IN places
proyided with post offices, 1S,O35 SSS in rural dis
tricts not having post Offices. The number of post
offices is 1864; one for every II square mile Ger
man) and per 6S45 inhabitants, viz. :493 post offices,
545 way stations (hrst class, 3242 way stations
second cass) lS4 offices at isolated railroad sta
lions; total 4464 post offices Moreover there were
01 railroad post offices which carried the mails on
1Os railway routes The number OF letter-boxes
throughout the North German Postal Union
amounted to 21,24s, of which zoos were in places
with post offices and 49, 240 in rural districts in the
latter one letter-boX per 1862 Inhabitants During
th. wear 1868 the average daily number Of railroad
trains on 1923 Germany miles OF railroad, was 1641;
of which 713 have special post offices, and 575 are
accom- ranied by mail conductors. ON high roads
there were 1923 different mail routes, namely:-S3S
of one mile or less 1850 of from one to two miles,
5so of two to three miles, 3Oi of three to four miles
and 500 of over four miles German; total length
of all routes, S563 miles. The number
of mails 90 and fro az one course)
during the year has been 4bl7, of which
los were served less than once per day; 2t39 once
per day: b5s twice every day, and 22l three
| was 10 and the aggregate distance 442 miles. The
total number OF miles traversed in the North German
Postal Union in 1868 as follOws:-On railroads,
b152 s89; on high roads, T,I9o4l6; by water 126,23l
| total 1909, 4s5 miles, Onlcers employed in the
postal administration were H. 2S9; OF these, 81 were
superior post directors. The suoaltern employees
number fOl21, OF whom 2s4s were letter-carriers in
cities and 1921 in rural districts. The postal service
on railroads employed 72 officers and 79T subalterns
Special public buildings for post offices 27S in
1856 different places. At the end OF the year there
were 1887 postal stations (1osthaterein), with 1921
mail contractors, $685. positions, and 1855 post
horses The number of vehicles in service was a
follows Railroad post-cars, ass; coupes In railroad
cars 81; vehicles high roads, 4SI2; selghs ll9S-
total, 6lb0 Owned by mail contractors wa agons
6651 seighs, 2l61-total, ssl6. Aggregate numDe
Of vehicles, l4965.
There were carried during the year as the aggre
gate number OF letters and parcels, SO2'S,o'o paoA
ages, fve-sixths of which were withlh the NortI
German Union, l7O,92O,8i4 ordinary letters an'
446O, ,256 registered.
Also, s96,TO6 copies OF periodicals. etc., passe'
through the mails; 253,2l5 OF these "eIe Poil1,0"
papers mailed to subscribers. Oh the to'ai n"ui'e @
S68, ,b54 were published In North ~erA",y, , as,S,s
South Germany Austria, LuXemoure, I'as o.l.a '""'
and Italy, and 1864 in other foreign @ o,
or letters mailed to persons in the NORM uernla'
Postal Union 667 1906 could not be delivered halei
800, 800, or "a per cent? because tile ps az,
dressed could not be found; looi1'l, -
per cent, because the persons addressed relase
, to take the letters; s4,Oos, or el per cent n,o
not called for at the Pos' Oho nv
poste-restante letters) lOds47, or 10
cause the persons addressed had aeu y" 20 ner csr
| Through the deadetter oiice ozz,ssi' y. ,. tn
Of Of the % total letters received asO i4oOOO iStS1a,
Os per cent remained on hand Tne seOSps ,sss sO
i internal postal intercourse amounted IN nsso. 100.
6bOo $50 thalers OF which o2sl4O wee 10 ~ a.
a | letters. The income for money orders was ooo's