Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-07-24
Best Equipped of Any In
Rogue River Valley
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Postmaster Donnell Shows Lo.
cal Newspaper Men Working
of the Mails.

Through the recent building Of an
addition 22x40 feet at the rear of the
postoffice building, the acquisition
of q large fire proof safe. distributing
cabinets, bag-rack. as well as other
new fixtures the Grants Pass postoffics
is now one of the neatest aud most
commodious Offices in Oregon outside
Of Portland. While many of these
improvements and the consequen,
facility in handling the mails here
might have come in the natural course
Of human events, their more expedi.
tious inauguration are in a great
measure due to the sagacity and up.
to-date methods which characterize
Postmaster Donneil's business policy.
The new bag-rack recently installed
is table around which some 20 mail
bags are hung into which all mails
are distributed. On the same table
all incoming mails are dumped, and
after the letters are stamped on the
new automatic cancelling machine,
are classified in the sectional dis
tributing rack after which tn g
parcels are distributed in various
boxes of the patrons. The bag rack
and sectional distributing rack are
90 situated in the room that the loss
of parcel of mail is next to i'm
possible.
All the various blanks used are
arranged in handy cabinets so that
the whole is splendid example Of
system and convenience and at a mo.
mept's notice either Postmaster Don,
nell or Assistant W. A. Newell can
lay hands on any data that may be
wanted. The office force includes
besides the postmaster and assistant
three clerks, James DeLamater,
Clyde Martin and Lloyd Dyer
Besides the general harmony which
prevails among the employees there is
an apparent universal. pride in the
whole force and the result is
efficiency plus unscrupulous nestness
throughout. besides an enthusiasm
which makes the work a pleasure
rather than an irksome task. The
new furniture and fixtures recently
installed include number of cabi-
nets and other articles turred out by
the California Pine Box and Lumber
Co. right here at home. which are a
credit to both the office and the fac.
tory where they were made.
Through the courtesy Of Postmaster
Donnell the newspaper fraternity of
the city we're shown through the
office one cay last week when one of
the mails was being worked, to give
the press an idea of the facility and
accuracy with which the mails are
handled each day. On the north side
of the new addition is row of lockers
for envelopes and other office sup
plies as well as for the coats and hats
OF the employees.
Nc D1nntll states that 1000 people
get mail from the postoifice boxt s
each day. while so mUre are served
through the general delivery window
Fol- the fiscal year ending March
31st, 1908, the per centase If gain in
al receipts was 2S per cent over
that of the prec dug year; the gain
in money orders issued for ths sama
period was 6s per cent; money orders
paid 26 per cent; registers dispatched.
20 per cent registers received, "a
per cent and registers 10 trsnsit. 10
Per cent.
The gross receipts OF the Grants
Pass office for the last year were over
$11, 600 or more than $1,000 in exec So
of the amount necessary to entitle the
city to free mail delivery. Ia view of
this fact the city couucil recently
named the streets and have Just fin
ished the Numbering Of the houses,
and at its last meeting the council
passed resolution making formal sp.
plication to Postmaster Donnell for
free delivery. The commercial
club also passed similar resolutions
and the two have already been for
wArded to the department at Washing