The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-05-28
THE NEW YORK POST OFFICE.

An article on the New York Post
Office, in the N. Y. Times, we oondense
into the following, which we are conf
dent will interest our country readers:
Mr.. James, Postmaster Of 1874,
though bearing the same title IS Mr.
Coddington, is as different in the ad'
ministration and responsibilities Of bic
| Office as the great Empire City is diff
fercnt from the hopeful corporation o.
thirty-four yearsago. Instead OF $5Oo,'
600 security for the faithful perform
ance of his duties, the Government now
REQUIRES the enormous sum Of 81 200.
600. and even difference in security ls
not a fair representation in figures Of
the difference in the labors and respon.
sibilities of 1889 and 1874.
Instead of the thirty-six clerks and
carriers of Mr.. Coddington's time, the
postoffice now employs 1862 clerks
and carriers, who are divided into three
divisions, so that the work goes I'm.
|interruptedly IN day and night. The
amount of labor accomplished may be
slightly comprehended in the fact
that in the year 1873 there were re-
ceived and delivered $500, 900 foreign
letters, and the total number, foreign and
domestic, received in year was nearly
&C, 900, 900. making an average hand
ling, ASSERTING and distributing of 3d.
600 in day-the mass, with papers
and bags, weighing over 10000
pounds. The Money Order Depart.
ment, in the year 1878, received
and distributed $50 100000, making
an average of 5000 per working
DAYS. The annual sale Of stamps is
over $4,000, 900.
The postal district of New York at
present measures fourteen miles on its
western boundary, and nine miles on
the eastern boundary. varying from two
to three miles in width. The district
includes the downtown general post
Office and twelve stations. One OF
these stations, ID, does as much business
as did the entire post office Mt the time
of Mr.. Coddington. who was then re-
ceiving nearly 100000 year for his
services.
The following list of stations is sta
|tistically interesting, and will impress
with surprise the most unobservant
reader:
Station A, 100 Spring Street. re-
ccivcs and delivers daily 1900 letters
and papers.
Station b. $50 Grand street, receives
and delivers daily 5000 letters and
papers.
Station c, 627 Hudson street, receives
and delivers daily 5000 letters aud pa.
papers.
Station d, Cooper Union, receives
and delivers daily - 900 letters and pa.
pers.
Station +, 465 Eighth avenue, receives
and delivers daily 10000 letters and
papers.
Station +, 342 Third avenue receives
and delivers daily 10000 letters and
papers.
Station G, 935 Eighth avenue, re.
ccives and delivers daily 1000 letters
and papers.
Station II, 97s Third avenue, re.
ceivcs and delivers daily 1000 letters
and papers.
Station J, Scvcnty-third street and
Boulevard.
Station X, Ill East Eighty.sixth
street receives and delivers daily 1000
letters and papers.
Station l., 223 Seventy-third street,
receives and delivers daily 1000 letters
and papers.
Station NJ. One Hundred and fifty.
second street and Tenth avenue.
Station 0, Manhattanville.
Station K, One hundred and Tenth
street and Boulevard.
Station D does o larger business
than the entire city Of Brooklyn; Sta
ton F surpasses in business Importance
Washington city; and such important
points as Harrisburg, Pa, Richmond,
Va, New Haven Conn.,, Pittsburg, Pa.
and Detroit, Mich, are dwindled by
comparison with subordinate and al
most unnoticed neighborhood post Office
stations in this great city; and lastly
we repeat one station D, does more deliv-