Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-24
MONDAY WAS RECORD BREAKER
 IN THE B|SBEE POSTOFF|CE
Christmas Business Is Reach ing An Enormous Total and Keeps increased Force Very Busy Giving Ii Attention.

When a Review representative step ped into the Bisbee postoffice yester- day he found a beehive of industry. Every one was, in common parlance, dumping sideways, and according to Postmaster Cassidy, all would be on the jumH for the next two weeks. Monday was the biggest day the post office has ever seen in Bisbee. It was a record-breaker. The force is aug. mented materially during the holidays handle the volume of Christmas busi- ness.
 For the benefit of the customers the register delivery for mail and pack ages will be opened on Christmas day from to 12 o'clock at the Bisbee postoffice, and the Lowell station will be open from II to o'clock. It will be well for all receiving notices that there are packages at the postoffice to call promptly to assist in keeping the large amount of packages from ac- euEaalating.
 One will be surprised upon. iuvesti- gatfng, to find the amount of work which accompanies the delivery of a registered package. Any package can be sent to any part of the United States for eight cents. When a pack age is delivered to the postoffice it is numbered. The next thing is to look up the county. to which the parcel is addressed and mark it plainly upon the package Next the receipt is eR- closed and stamped with the registry stamp. Next billed, then checked into the pouch; lastly taken to the postal clerk where a receipt is taken and filed in the office. This is what Uncle Sam does in handling every registered package which is passed through the window with eight cents. It might be interesting to know, also, that after it leaves the Bisbee station, that every time it passes to another mail clerk on it's journey, a receipt is given until it reaches it's destination. After it ar rives at it's journeys end it Is also re- ceipted for when turned over to the one who is receiving the package
 This unusual precaution will ex- plain to the public why so few postal packages are lost en route. During the year 1907, 4,312,S55 were handled throughout the United States. Out of this vast number, the losses were only 1 in each 13,174 pieces handled. a re- markedly small per centage.
 In a recent visit to BiSbee one of the government postal representatives made the statement to a Review man that the Bisbee postoffice is the best 'systemized in either territory" which is certainly very complimentary to Postmaster Cassidy, and pleasing to the people of Bisbee. In taking a jaunt through the postoffice, one is singnlarly impressed with the system and the method which is adapted there. The index system, the alpha beical order installed throughout, the arrangement of the several depart ments. all combine to make the work easy and done with dispatch. It is so arranged that each days business ls closed with the day, and each day opened with new business.
 The casual observer can not acquire good idea of the entire system in simply passing through the postoffice in few minutes, but he can note the eXaustive system which has marked the excellent. success of the present postmaster. The system is entirely that of Mir. Cassidy's, which shows his marked adaptability to detail. The Terrible Mike is, also, reported as being something of disciplinarian. At present there are eighteen employ ed in the postoffice