St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-01
bered 4Oa, 577, s95 and the letters collected

bered 4O2, 577, 1876 and the letters collected
414, los, sci.
EXTENT AND COST or TRANSPORTATION JUNE
30. 1854.
The statistics of the inland mail service.
June 80. 1854, are as follows
The number of routes in the star service
was IL, 729; the length of the routes, 226. 779
miles; the annual transportation, 81, los, O53
miles at a cost of S5,0S9, 94l, being about
6.2S cents per mile.
The number Of routes in the steamboat ser
vice was III; the length Of che routes. Is
591 miles, the annual transportation. 3, 49,, =
2SS miles, at an annual cost of 1896, 573,
being about 1887 cents per mile.
The number of routes in the railroad SER
vice wss I,573; the length Of the routes.
liz, 100 miles; the annual transportation,
Ia. ~ 392 miles. at cost Of SIS. O., COS
exclusive of SS.97s, 1862 for railway postal
eIerSs), oeing about 10. 81 cents per mile.
There are 4,9OS contractors for carrying
the mails on iullnd routes. The number OF
offices supplied BY mail messengers was
>, POS, at an annual cost Of SS63,313.
The number of special offices was 2, 1913.
each office being supplied by a special carrier
whose compensation is not to xceed two
thirds Of the salary OF the postmaster.
An exhibit Of the service, with tabular
statements, appears in the report of the sec
ond assistant postmaster general, hereto an
nexed.
RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.
All railway postal clerks are appointed for
probationary period Of six months, during
which time their fitness and capacity for the
service are tested. They are examined
monthly as to their knowledge of the postal
laws and regulations, as well as the practical
workings of their Office. If, at the expiration
of this probationary period, they have proven
themselves competent, they are given full
appointment at class one. After an appoint
ment In class one, all clerks are promoted,
according to merit, when vacancies occur.
IL usually takes d clerk several years to
work his way up to class five, which is the
highest grade. The clerks of this size are in
charge OF an Office in a car which is known
as a railway postOtlice, and usually have
several clerks under their direction.
T ere are at the present time about four
thousand clerks in the railway mail service,
many II them aving been so employed a
gre. number OF years. The amount OF
special stu y that these clerks have devoted
10 lie dut.rs OF their office would have made
them proficient in almost any OF the probes
siOns oil life.
During the past twelve years not a single
clerk has been removed without good cause,
and that Cause has been incom potency, in
temperance, or neglect Of duty. By such
means the clerks have, in great mea sure, felt
Set u in their tenure, and have devoted
themselves with all energy to the best inter
ests of the service.
THE POSTAL MONEY ORDER SYSTEM.
At the close of the last fiscal gear there
were $50 money order offices, an increase
OF 3S3 over the previous year. There trans
actions aggregate St32, 121 26I % in DIMES
TIC money orders issu d aud 1921 97I, OS2 80
in domestic orders paid and repaid, 81 ,6SS,
1868 in international orders issued
and 1851, 06j.66 IN international orders
paid and repaid, the total issues being 1929.
SIC, O3S.5l and the total payments and re-
payments Sl25, 542, 49, 10. There were re-
ceived from the public fees amounting to
$3.50, 065.79 on domestic orders issued and to
$40, i02 .35 on international orders issued, a
tota. of 81. 100, los, These totals show gain S
over tie fiscal year loo2-'S3 OF 4.0S per cent.
in the domestic business, and 4 81 per cent.
in the international business, and losses of
l3 II per cent in domestic fees, and .0S per
cent in international fees.
lhe gross revenue lot the year from DO
mestic business was S24l, 74I.S4; from the
International money order business for 1882
'S3 it was $l2S, 665.64, and for 1883 81
Sis, 1911 81. After deducting all ascertain
ale expenses Of every kind there was a net
profit of S244, s56.S1.
POSTAL NOTES.
The following statistics Of the postal note
business for the FIRST ten months of its opera
ton, from Sept. 3, 1888, to June 30, 1884,
are interesting, inasmueh as they exhibit the
large field which this new means of RENTING
small sums has already occupied, and show
the relation, in extent of business done. be-
tween the postal notes and the money orders
Number Of postal notes issued. S,6S9, 237
1.