The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-12

The schedule OF the wagon service was
arranged so as TO make close connection
with the carriers deliveries. II provided
for sixteen dispatches daily from the CEN
trail ONCE 10 the Monadnock building and
twenty from the building into the central
Office. except on Sundays. when the num-
Der IL only three 10 and two from the SUBJ
station and district.
Tho carriers schedule in the building
provides six deliveries every day except
Sunday. and Is so arranged as TO enable
the men to begin their deliveries practic-
ally al tho same time as they did when
serving from the central station In
these six deliveries the carriers distrib-
ute on an average 25.N0 pieces of mall
daily In the great office structure. At
least Is per cent. of the mail received
there for delivery lis addressed without
room number. The difficulties and de-
lays that would naturally grow out OF
this condition can readily be seen. The
carriers who serve the district are old
ones. however, and have reduced the APP
parent drawback TO a minimum. Seldom
Is mistake made In the distribution.
Long training ard service In the postal
department have made these carriers
adopts establishing a system that In
sures accurate delivery OF mail to the
persons TO whom II II addressed. Every
old or new occupant OF the building Is
known 10 them. And when a new person
tRnFr INTO tut puiftiDts no mafffI now
humble or high In position. he gets his
msn promptly. Such names are secured
by the carrier on their respective floors
and added to the list. Those who leave
the building are also kept up with and
their mail Is forwarded TO their new adj
dresses In fact. the district, though
small In area. f. separate and Distinct
postofice in Itself. and ths same routine
IL found there as In the central Office
II only differs In degree
An idea may be had % the volume OF
business done By this district from the
recent report submitted 10 Postmaster
Gordon by John ]. Clarity. superinfend-
eHt OF the Monadnock station and dis
trict. for the quarter iust ended The
number OF pouches received daIly except
sunday is seventeen. These represent the
collection Of mails from the big building
and sent 30 the main Office. Twenty-Five
pouches are received at the building
from the main Office daily except san
aav. The average number OF pieces ham
died In delivery every day in the build
Ing runs 90 about $500 There ~ also
an average OF more than twenty-five
sacks OF paper mali received for delivery
daily. The number ~ pieces. however,
4 Included In the e, 90
For the quarter Of March. April and
MAY. seveniy-eight days the money or
der transactions in this district number
"a SSsS or an average Of severty-one
day, Thu snornt Of them was 81. - -.
OF an average Of s-s119 dav. There
were registered there during the same
period 7.sii pieces. or an average 81
nfneiy-eight 4 day Stamp sales for the
same time amounted to sl5s, tiN Il. or an.
average Of t206s7 a day In March
alone the stamp sale was Ss.s 500 These
figures are but shade under the amount
81 business In the various divisions done
by the largest Satisfaction and district
the Board Of Trade. Unlike the Monad-
mock district. however the Board %
Trade district comprises not only the
Board OF Trade building. but other large
office buildings In that neighhorheod.
Measured by the area. though the Mo-
nadnock district handles many times the
business.