The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ees, but it isconfidently believed that no loss from that cause has occurred in theWf)rcester post office for many years. If all the pieces of mail notdefinitely accounted for have been lost, their number bears what I mavfairly call a surprisingly small ratio to the not less than 18,000,000pieces, of newspapers and periodicals, handled in the postoffice during the year. It is one in 47,745, two one-thousandths of i percent., or, expressed decimally, .00002. There are four stations, A, B, C and D, and four sub-sta
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ees, but it isconfidently believed that no loss from that cause has occurred in theWf)rcester post office for many years. If all the pieces of mail notdefinitely accounted for have been lost, their number bears what I mavfairly call a surprisingly small ratio to the not less than 18,000,000pieces, of newspapers and periodicals, handled in the postoffice during the year. It is one in 47,745, two one-thousandths of i percent., or, expressed decimally, .00002. There are four stations, A, B, C and D, and four sub-stations, Nos. i^2, 3 and 4, of the Worcester post office. The distinction between stationsand sub-stations is that at the former carriers are placed, who make theirdeliveries from the stations; at the sub-stations there are no carriers. Atany station or sub-station stamps or stamped envelopes and cards can beobtained, money orders are issued, and mail may be registered. StationA, at 51 Main street, has a superintendent, two clerks and twelve 322 The Worcester of RESIDENCE OF MRS. NANCY H. S. PIPER, 224 HIG carriers. The receipts at this station exceed $20,000 yearly, and theamount of its business exceeds that of any post office in the countyexcept those of Worcester and Fitchburg. Station B, at Webstersquare, has a clerk in charge and two carriers. Station C, at Ouin-sigamond, has a clerk in charge and one carrier. .Station D, atGreendale, has a clerk in charge and one carrier. The sub-stations,each having a clerk in charge, are: No. i, at 8 Millbury street; , at Lake View; No. 3, at the corner of Southbridge and Washburnstreets; No. 4, at 236 Front street. Until 1893 there had been forseveral years three independent post offices within the city limits,known as Ouinsigamond, Lake View and Greendale. In that yearthey were made stations of the Worcester post office, and in thenext year the other stations and sub-stations were established, exceptSub-Station No. 4, which c
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