. The street railway review . INTERIOR—RAILWAY POST OFFICE. against the clerk. Thus for one piece incorrectly sent,7,144 were correctly thrown. It may be stated in thisconnection that every piece of mail matter delayed tenminutes is counted as error against the clerk so delay-ing it. It is an interesting fact that out of the 68,403 post-offices in the United States, the ten largest show aggre-gate receipts of per cent of the total revenue of. EXTERIOR—RAILWAY POST OFFICE. the department. These ten are: New York, Chicago,Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Brooklyn,San Francisco,
. The street railway review . INTERIOR—RAILWAY POST OFFICE. against the clerk. Thus for one piece incorrectly sent,7,144 were correctly thrown. It may be stated in thisconnection that every piece of mail matter delayed tenminutes is counted as error against the clerk so delay-ing it. It is an interesting fact that out of the 68,403 post-offices in the United States, the ten largest show aggre-gate receipts of per cent of the total revenue of. EXTERIOR—RAILWAY POST OFFICE. the department. These ten are: New York, Chicago,Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Brooklyn,San Francisco, Baltimore and Pittsburg. This showsalso the fact of the great preponderance of the servicein large cities, the expediting of which is commended bythe Review to the magnificent street railway systems ofeach city named. The postmaster general, in his last, 1893, report, says: At this point it is in place for me to call attention to theimportance which already attaches to, and which I believewill grow from, the utilization of the electric car lines formail transportation purposes. These companies can per-form much service that would otherwise depend on thestar carriers; and as the visible outlay Incurred by theroad is small, they are disposed to accept ordinary rail-road rates for the same. My desire is, that wherever thegeneral service can be advanced, without the duplicationof routes unnecessarily, it is in the direction of improve-ment t
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