The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-13
A Well Managed, Fully Equip
ped POstOffice.
Forty People Employed To
Handle the Mail.
4 FIVE THOUSAND LETTERS
Sent Out Daily; Thousand Dol
lars Stamp Sales.
The Letters Are Promptly and
Carefully Delivered.

The postoffice here is doing a land
office business, according to Mr.. NJ. A.
mike" Frey, the postmaster, and &C
cording to the system upon which the
office is run no letters or other mat
ter coming through the regular post
office channels are likely to be mis-
placed.
All mail received is separated into
the regimental units to which it is
addressed and is delivered each day by
orderlies to the various regiments. 1t
is then separated and handed out TO
the individual.
Some mail comes to Funston with
out the necessary address and, OF
course, it is impossible for the local
postoffice to make any sort of delivery
of it, When mail of this kind is re-
ceiVed it is taken to branch office,
especially used to further direct the
delivery When a man comes into
camp his name is put into the card in
deX and as soon as the individual -
assigned to some particular unit his
location in the camp is given by the
military authorities to the branch
postoffice.
The card is then completed and the
man gets his mail regardless OF any
oversight on his part. The name OF
every man in Camp Funston is in this
index and there is, therefore, not
possibility of any mal being unde-
hvered.
In some cases there has been mail
improperly addressed to individuals in
the camp. When the W ong regiment
number is given the mail of course,
goes to the regiment orderly to which
1t is addressed; still even this mail VIII
not be held long as it is returned TO
the branch office where the indivld-
uaPs correct address is found by the
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and properly delivered.
There is no general delivery in the
camp and it will do no one any good
to repeatedly ask the office if they
have any mail The postoffice has
been annoyed quite good deal by
men asking for mail. Let's be little
more considerate of the men in the
office, who are working overtime.
The postoffice was opened August
81 with four men and has increased
until at present there are thirty men
working on an average of twelve hours
a day in order that everyone viii get
his letters and other mail matter at
the earliest possible moment. Arrange
ments are now being made for an ad-
dition of ten more men for the I'M
mediate future and it is likely that
the force will necessarily be increased
again later on.
The sales of stamps are increasing
daily and during the past week the
been over S1,10O. The past few days
have each been over 81 500. The
stamping machine registers show
that from 1000 to 5000 letters are
leaving Funston every day. This is
only letters and postal cards and does
not include about 1000 special deliv-
cry letters, any of the parcels and
Mother mail matter.
1t is not enough to say that the
postoffice is we'll equipped as any in
q town of 10000, for it is a fact that
this office is doing five or six times
as much handling of mail as does a
postoffice in town of the same size.
This over-abundance of business is
caused by the many letters that each
man wants to write TO friends and
relatives-men that don't write let
ter once a month at home are send
ing out some two or three day
maybe more.
The postoffice opens every morn
ing, except Sunday. at Z a. m. and
closes at 9 p. m. There is no regular
delivery on Sunday and it is useless
for the men to worry the men inside
the office by trying to get it.
Thousands of dollars in money or
ders are being cashed by the office.
1t is necessary for an Identification
of some kind to be made when a
money order is cashed and so the
postmaster advises that the regiment
orderly or some other person who is
known at the postoffice, accompany
the holder This is rule of all gov
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