The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-22

Roughly speaking, said Mr.. kena- |
Ike yesterday this is about 100000 |
pieces which we handled in May. In the |
count OF newspapers I should say that
there were probably in the neighbor-
hood of 200. 900 instead of 10000. as are
reported. We are credited with eighty
papers to a bag If a count was made
of each piece in several bags 1 am GER
tain the average would be closer to Ia
pieces.
THE manner in which the mails are
received in this Office is irregular. and
therefore unusual from the general
postoffice standpoint, and for that rea-
son we are up TO our necks some days
with a rush of mail, and on other days
there is very little TO do. For instance,
| on May lst we received 1874 letters; on
MAY Cd. il was So. IA and two days lat
! er we handled 1855. Sometimes 1t
! runs down TO about 5000, and the very
/ next il is up TO the 10000 mark.
'tAs for papers We are working on
! them all the time Some days there
will be about 900. and the next day 1,20e.
! So you can see there is no regularity
about mails in this office As gen
eraI rule everything piles in on US at
once. When a steamer is coming from
/ the Orient for the coast, for instance
/ the drop boxes begin TO I'll up about as
fast as we can unload them. There is
a tremendous inpour of mail at the last
moment. We have TO dig into that, and
as soon as this steamer comes into
mort We have our hands full of Oriental
mail. which is difficult TO handle with
any degree OF despatch. So with our
limited force we are receiving and des-
patching al the same time
when the Doric arrived on May I'd
from, San Francisco she brought US Is
+ 900 letters with several thousand prints
about Il, ZOO That was big mail, but
f+be largest one I ever handled since l
have been connected with the post Of
fee was that which arrived on the 81
ezra. on May 18th from San Francisco
She dumped in on US about So ass let
ters and 1879 prints, orr total OF
about 81. 6sT pieces to be handled in one
day.
.tThe islands mails are tremendous
On. Saturdays the principal mail is that
brought by the Kinau from Hawaii and
Maui. averaging between 1000 and 20. :
1000 letters. On May 4th we received
"A. 600 letters from the United states
land the other Islands. Letters ana
papers seemed to be dropping IN on
rs from every dIrectlon-s III MAY tVtAA
We received 1900 island letters and
es. 600 United states letters II was
hard working day for the department,
land the clerks certainly earned their
pay many times over in getting
through it,
Another feature of the difficulties
that surround US IS the number Of peo-
ME allotted to each of the private
, boxes. There Is an average OF ten per
sons receiving their mail from each box
: We have limited number of them, OF
leourse. But less than ten per cent OF
the letters intended for boxes have tht
numbers on them. That has to be car
ried in our heads, and ii gives INT
clerks a large amount Of extra Wori
Ibesfdes delaying the distribution
MANY of the people who are hinder
ling US in getting rid of our man
Eox,feklv ara the very one who are con
{. lstantiy complaining of poor service am
slow service and few other thing
they know absolutely nothing about
yesterday morning at about
io,cIock we received on the Gaelic aoou
20 na1 letters from the United States
and at noon every letter of il was dis
:. Itrfbuted- I consider that quick hand