Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-02
SOME TELLING FIGURES.
Report of Mails Handled During the Past
Year Shows an Increase Beyond All
Previous Ones-An Evidence of Busi-

Report of Mails Handled During the Past
Year Shows an Increase Beyond All
Previous Ones-An Evidence of Busi-
ness Prosperity.
Yesterday opened new fiscal year for the
has about completed his report of the bust
ness of the year ending June 80 1891, and is
quite happy over what it shows. The in
crease in business done is much greater than
that of former years, while the great de-
crease in the number of errors speaks well
for the efficiency Of those connected with
the office. The following are the figures for
the year:
Letters from other offices, 3l2, ,14O pounds;
increase over 1890, 29, l04 pounds; papers from
pounds: city drop letters, 1858. .697 pieces; in
crease, 1854, ,647; city drop postal cards, 2 l25.
618; increase, s16,511; city drop papers, 4s, 299
pounds; increase, 9,2l5 pounds: letters
79l pounds; papers through boxes, 6O3, ,O05
pounds: increase, 133, 1873 pounds; city drop
letters through boxes, 2s, 1885, increase, ,5s9
pounds; total postage on local matter, 1885,
Number of carriers at $500 per annum, Al;
carriers at $500 20; carriers at 81, 600. Y.
Deliveries-l5 carriers make trips daily;
lmakes trips daily; Ss make 1 trips daily;
10 make trips daily; Al make trips daily;
make trip daily.
Collections-7 carriers make trips daily;
l5 make trips daily; makes trips daily:
80 make trips daily; "a make trips daily;
Al make trips daily; make trip daily.
Registered letters delivered 5,625; letters
delivered 1,G44 21s; postal cards delivered.
matter delivered, 473, 500; local letters col
lected, S76, 8s7 mail letters collected, 925, ,759:
local postal cards collected, 81, 123; mail pos
tai cards collected, 152, 1O4; second, third and
number of pieces handled. 4O73, $50; total
postage on all local matter collected by car
riers, and on all local matter deposited in
fourth-class matter, s13, ,42l A.
Number OF sacks of papers distributed.
9S, 2S3 increase, 1889. Number of pieces of
paper mail distributed, II, ,450; increase,
2,594, $50. Number of errors in distributing,
800: number of pieces correct to each error,
M,G1. Number of letter packages dis
tributed, 92l, 1872; increase, 1853, ,568. Number of
72o. Number of errors in distribution, 3,e72;
number of letters correct to each error,
II ,905. Total number of pieces handled 5l.-
731, 73o; increase, 907, ,570 per cent OF increase
The figures from the money order depart
ment are as follows:
Debit-To fixed reserve, $3.50: domestic or
ders issued $353s7 So: postal notes, s45 367 g.;
Canadian, S5,3l3 81 British. $54 O23 so; Ger
man, $3S,47 60; Swiss, $5,657 81: Italian, s2s :
675 IA; French, s2,6O4 so: swedish, s5.36s a.
Norwegian, $1,9l1 81; Danish, S2,9t4 Is; Bel
toria, $l4 70: New South Wales. $4s 49,
Jamaica, s2s 4s; India. $l49 81; New Zealand,
S73 05; Cape Colony, $58 "A; Japanese, $209 ~:
Portugal, $40; Netherlands, $15 25; remit
tances from other offices. $1SsS, 1913 A: fees OF
office. 81, ,969 SO. Total, $2,440 A3 81. Increase
over 1890, $223, ,56l 05.
Credit-By domestic orders paid ,ssA, ,s9l 81;
postal notes, $76,775 70: money orders repaid,
s., 2294 "a: foreign, $203 Al; Canadian orders
paid, s5,5O1 10: British orders, sl22l1 g.; Ger
man orders, $1s, 161 So; Swiss So 26S Al; Italian,
$452 9S; French, $6l7 %; Belgian, $l67 20;
Swedish, $6 9s; Norwegian, 800: New Zea-
land, slo4 u: New South Wales, $50 81; Vic
toria, $50 26: japanese, $50 A; Queensland,
$24 45; Netherlands, $42 10; Hawaiian, $7l 80;
Newfoundland, 81 TO- Portuguese, "A; Incl
dental expep ses, $64 80 cash paid to stations,
$s5; remtttances to Philadelphia, 81, 1,477,s29 0s.
Total, s. 440,443 "a.
Speaking OF the cost of running the local
department. of the postoffice, yesterday, ex-
Superintendent of Mails Stephen Coils said:
"Since the introduction of rapid transit in
the city a saving of least 80 per cent could
be made in delivering and transporting
mails to different parts of the two cities.
The wagons now in use could be done away
with. They were only put on because the
old horse cars were too slow. Now the cable
and electric lines would save time and
money, were they utilized"