The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-21

fact, no man in Indianapolis is closer to
the hearts of the people, perhaps, than he.
Thursday he celebrated his seventy-seventh
birthday anniversary.
Assistant Postmaster Shideler has pre-
pared some statistical facts concerning the
indianapolis postoffice to be deposited in
the cornerstone that are interesting. LAS
proud as we are of these figures" said Mr..
Shideler, 1--WE realize that generations yet
to come, when they view that marvellous
development the future has In store for the
postal service, will smile at conceit."
There is in the Indianapolis Office a total
of 3l6 employees, divided as follows: Post
carriers. 1873; special delivery messen-
gers, Is.
Three hundred and thirty-nine railway
postal clerks are paid at this office and 1072
of the Indianapolis postoffice for the year
1902 was 5000, $3.50. When to this sum Is
added depository funds received from other
postmasters and from money order account,
the gross receipts for that year were
81, O19, 227.O9. The disbursements of the office
for that year were as follows: Salaries of
riers, sos, S24.S6; special delivery messen-
gers, S., 13S0S; to railway postal clerks, $685.
1856; to rural letter carriers throughout
the State of Indiana, s420 ,26S.13. Other mis-
cellaneous items and the amount trans
ferred to the assistant United States treas
urer at Cincinnati, balanced the account
In the city delivery division there are 100
letter carriers and twentyfour substitute
carriers. There are five carrier stations
Station A is located at 2l29 North Illinois
street; Station b is at 1927 Roosevelt ave-
nue., and the other three stations are in
Irvington, West Indianapolis and Haugh-
Vile Eighteen carriers and collectors are
mounted There are two daily deliveries
throughout the entire residence district
In the downtown business districts there
are four to six deliveries, and at the hotels
and clubs eight. From the street letter
and package boxes throughout the city
there are four collections in the residence
district and many as sixteen in the
wholesale district. In the special delivery
division eighteen messengers are employed
and during the year 1902 they received for
special delivery 64,6S6 letters.
IN THE MAILING DIVISION.
In the mailing division during the year
1902 there were 6l.7O2 pouches of frst-class
mail received and 15S.O42 tie sacks Of other
classes Sixty-three thousand. one hundred
and seventy-eight pouches of frst-class
mail were dispatched and $50, 463 tie sacks
of mail of other classes. The total number
of pieces of mail handled during the year,
estimated upon the basis approved by the
department, amounts to nearly 100.000.O00
During the year 1902 in the money order
division Sc, 339 domestic money orders were
issued, amounting TO 1888, Sl.55; 2,l69 inter-
national money orders. amounting TO $685.,
s99.4s. The depository funds received from
other postmasters were sufficient to swell
the total transactions 10 the sum of $685.
S Zoo ord There WAS pad "a du n az 5he year 1885,
In the registry division for the same pc
Rod A. 126 letters Were registered for out
ward dispatch and S2S05 received for deiv-
cry. The registered letters, parcels and
through register pouches and inner sacks
handled in transit was sufficient TO swell
the total registered articles handled 10 44O.-
H. Two thousand and nine letters were
registered by letter carriers in the resident
districts while on their routes.
As the average daily stamp sales OF this
office now exceed 5000, ii is evident that
more than 10000 pieces of mail are handled
daily. The complaints of delay and posi-
BILE loss, recorded in the inquiry division,
do not exceed five per day. and of this
number a favorable result is finally OBJ
tanned in about half, which indicates that
the actual failures TO reach proper destina-
ton are about one in 10000 pieces handled.
and these failures are mostly explained by
the large number of pieces of mail that
reach the dead letter Office in Washington
daily through the error of the senders