The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . did not speak or think of it as in two mailing division has nine clerks, one of them at Station A, underthe charge of the superintendent of mails. They receive all lettersbrought in by carriers and collectors, or deposited directly in the office,and all other mail matter, papers, packages, etc., except those receivedby the Registr\ Division. Thej^ postmark the letters and sealed andspecial delivery packages: distribute them in the mailing cases, whichhave pigeon-holes, one for each post office to which five or
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . did not speak or think of it as in two mailing division has nine clerks, one of them at Station A, underthe charge of the superintendent of mails. They receive all lettersbrought in by carriers and collectors, or deposited directly in the office,and all other mail matter, papers, packages, etc., except those receivedby the Registr\ Division. Thej^ postmark the letters and sealed andspecial delivery packages: distribute them in the mailing cases, whichhave pigeon-holes, one for each post office to which five or more letters. JOSEPH H. WALKER. The Worcester of 1898. 315 are sent at one time: tie them out in packages, each of which has aprinted facing slip telling from what office it comes and where it is togo: put the letter packages and special delivery packages into leatherpouches, labeled for some railway post office if they are R. P. , or for some post office if they are closed or directpouches; and see that the pouches are seasonably loaded into thewagons for the railroad station. The mailing clerks also rate up letters and packages insufficientlyprepaid, and give notice to the senders, if known, or to the addressees,of unpaid letters or insufficiently paid packages; for letters on which atleast two cents postage is not paid by stamps, or packages not fullypaid, are held for postage. Papers and packages, with the excep-tions noted above, are dispatched in sacks labeled as the pouches sacks and some pouches are hung on the great pouch rack, whichh<ilds 120 of them, and a clerk, st
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