Pueblo chieftain., 1922-01-04

che biggest ln0lVldual BUSINESS III
the whole world has a branch in Pu-
eblo which takes in as actual receipts
considerably more than quarter OF
a million dollars a year, and handles
six or eight times that much cold cash
for the people.
This, by far the biggest business on
the face of the globe, is the United
States post office department.
And second man In command OF the
s2e 900 employees of this big business is
"A Pueblo man, DR.. Hubert Work, who
quite often writes checks with seven
figures after their dollar mark.
In a speech not long ago MADE oy
Postmaster General VIII H. nay ;,
that official stated that the post oilice
department spends s60o,ooo,oOO OF the
peoples money every year; this ne
said ia far and away the biggest pusi-
ness in the world; the annual turn
over Of the post office department, thc
in and the out Is three billion ooliar >
annually. Going on, he stated thae .'o
post office department operates lns
largest savings bank in the Worlu
with 1000 depositors; arH the iat sest
express company in the world
Mr.. HAYS estimated that the express
business of 1921 would run up 70 fvu,
900 packages, and that 2VooVoo pat
cells post packages would DC ranu,su
Every hour the post Office oepa,
l.ib
year the department Sells ls'uov,uoo,vo99
steups. a billion and two hundred anu
fifty million postal cards. besides t"o
billion and seven hundrea H'i'iiO''
stan,Ned envelopes. The department
uses 500 900 miles of twine every year .
enough to encircle the globe 81 times
II uses enough pencils every year 10
mt one behind a million and hali
oars and pens to the number OF o,VVo'-
900 25.ooO quarts of mucllnge are
used annually.
Debts to the amount of billion and
A half dollars are paid each year thru
the post office department with lo''-
600 900 money orders. Rural carriers
serve e,5Oo, 900 farmers every day that
mail is distributed, and the rural car :
riers travel 10000 miles: 6o,Op1vuO
bags are in constant use and le'ooo'"vo
dead letters go to the dead letter Oh
flee every year because OF the care
iessness of the public in addressing
them. .
THE PUEBLO BRANCH
And now for the Pueblo branch OF
this biggest business in the world.
A post office is rated or CLASSIFIED
on the basis of it's postal receipts, ana
the receipts consist of the money ,
taken in for stamps. box rents and the
like. In 1921 the Pueblo post office
took in s259. MAS. which is an IN
crease over the receipts OF 1890 of sl6'-
O9l.5l.
Money transmitted from the Pueblo
post office in the past year py means
of domestic money orders totaled ssS"-
i7i.2s. which is $3i,o9I.6i more than
during the preceding year. The iees
for this work the past year amounted
10 ss.sef.7i.
A very much larger amount was paid
on domestic money orders, the figures
showing that there was S'p'Stp'''
more coming in than going out.
Transmission OF money to other
+ countries fell off to the amount oil
si7,I92si, showing that amount less
being sent abroad this favorable con-
diticn, from a local viewpoint. Is
largely due to the fact that the money
order business in some foreign coun-
tries has not been resumed. Another
favorable condition in this regard is
noted in tho fact that more money has
been received in Pueblo by means of
foreign money orders than during
1890. the gain this past year having
been s3.a53.35.
The pueblo post office has los en-
ployes OF this number there are .
heads OF departments, 81 carriers and
AO clerks. Tho official roster OF the
office Is as follows:
Postmaster, S. s. Bcllesficld.
Secretary to the postmaster. Ray B.
Jones.
Assistand Postmaster, willis T.
Haverstock.
superintendent or Mails. II. L.
Work.
Superintendent of Carriers. John
w. Uill.
There Is one branch post office sta
tion In the city and 6 post office
branches. located aud officered rs
follows:
station A. 1899 Evans avenue. j. II.
CARROT.
No. /. 1o3 f. Abrlondo, Mrs. h. A.
TAYLOR.
No. ?. Gath and Grand, Frank E.
Mortcnson.
No. .. 1890 South Union. Mrs.
Maudo Taylor.
No. 4. 2Ot South Union. r. r.
Glover.
No. 6. 312 Park street. Joe stanko.
No. Z, Berkeley and Northern. Geo
r. Whitman.
There are two rural routes run
ming east from the city. and there
. arc four star routes out OF Pueblo.
A receiving station for parcels post
business to accommodate business
people. is being established in tho
regular mail department Of tho union
station. in the east end OF the main
An average OF 10000 Iatters arc
handled I'm the Pueblo post office
every day. and the office handles
10000 special delivery letters each
year
Carriers and clerks receive salary
of Sl.40O the first year. increased at
the rate of 500 year until the maxi
mum of $500 is reached, y few
special clerks. such as heads OF do
partments. receive $4,000
At tho age of SO years such post
office employees arc retired on a life
pension OF s72O per hnnum.
Each employc is entitled to va
cation of weeks a year. and a 10
days sick leave is granted on fun
nay Nvbon they are reaui-ed to work