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Noe York lid larger postal business In
ra' year han tho whole state ~ Illinois,
Including chicago. than pcnnsyvania, In
Guiding PhiIadepbia and fiitrburg than
Ma.-a,hu-etts including BOSTON
Tho territory covered by the Now York
p,s' pIi,,' cmbraCez only tho boroughs
n Manhattan and Ths Bronx Tho postal
need. NJ other parts of the greater city
arr served by independent post officas,
ranging IN importancs from Brooklyn
with it- annual revenue of two millions,
10 hysidr, ~ Y, with revenue Of littls
more than two thousand. The gross reye-
nues II the post Offices In the greater city
aggregate Sis,537 ,77d.0s.
The New York post offics not only COL
lects and distributes mail matter written
hy or addressed to its own citizens, IL is
also the gateway through which foreign
mail enters the country aud the funnel
through which almost all letters, papers
and packages must pass TO the rest of the
world.
During last year. the New York city
delivery department collected and de-
hvered, in round numbers, billion and
half pieces Of mail matter More than
nine million dollars worth OF stamps and
post cards were sold The entire revenue
Of the office was sl80O0, 900. Four and a
half million letters and post cards were
handled daily.
The New York post office has 800 en-
ployees. II has 81 branch stations for
which mail Is bagged on incoming ships
and trains as if each was separate town.
In addition there are 2l0 sub-stations-
chiefly In drug stores, where stamp and
FIVE per cent of the matter mailed in New
York is for local delivery.
In one very important phase Of its work
the metropolitan post Off ce excels the
services in any other city OF the world.
In the inquiry and dead letter depart
ment at the general Office most interest
Ing and varied task Us accomplished.
All the undirected, misdirected, insult
recently stamped, unclaimed and unmail-
able pieces OF mail pass through this de-
more than 1000 inquiries for missing
mail. Flfty-ffve per cent. II these were
recovered or accounted for Nearly 5000, -
600 pleces were sent to the dead letter
office at washington.
More than million and quarter OF
letters misdirected by the senders were
forwarded, the correct addresses having
been supplied by the alert, experienced
clerks IN this department; Often con-
slderable ingenuity, as well as linguistic
ana geoRraphlcal knowledge, N required
10 guess what the sender meant to write.
Another interesting phase OF this depart
ments work Is the locating OF owners or
eohSgnees OF money Iound loose IN the
IhaNS, Last year more man o,5OO df-
ierent sums were found, III amounts rang |
ing from cent to $1,000.
>, New York is the main gateway OF the
United States, and the New Sork post
% once is the national mail funnel. The
buk oi the Canadian foreign mail-incom-
mg and outgoing through New |
YORK and Is hardied-in bags-by the
New YORK oilics'
When Europeans write to Australasian
points almost al their letters pass, in bulk,
through New York and are dispatched,
w wa our transoonttnental railroads through I
san Francisco to their destinations. Much
OF the European mail for the Far East,
ior Mexico and for South America finds
mat the American metropolis marks one
sage OF IT'S journey.
careful examination OF the equipment
ana operation in the three great capitals Of
the Old World-London. Paris and Berlin
encouraging to tho New Yorker in many
respects, and somewhat discouragng in
others by the development of the pneu-
matte tube in the two Continental cities,
y y Is possible to send card (1nown as petite
ohue IN Paris and as posfkdrte in Berlin)
from almost any portion of the city to any
other portion in less than an hour, That
.hs II not possible ~ New York does not
need statement
VI course, the London postman has duties
Thlch are unknown TO his American brother
me pos' ofttce OF the British capital, in
addition to its purely roStal functions !