| Show it fir by waldon fa ot all the wonders which uncle sam s working in this age of electricity and other newly developed motive forces nothing Is more marvelous marve than the triumphs which have lately been e in the rapid handling ot matl ir tier and particularly alta dulci one of the bood about this new era 0 uke peed in transmitting our missives from sender to recipient Is that practically all the people throughout the entire country are sharing in the benefits not merely the busy man in the busl ress districts ot the great clelea bat the housewives in isolated su arbs the dweller in hamlets remote the railroad and the farmers v ho llva on little traveled country aads cads have opportunities to realize th of the present day bagh epee postal ot only la the mall being caralea arora city to y by faster trader hot tn the themselves thema elves there iha been a revolution in the methods of transferring mall matter from place to place it la comparatively but short time as that branch post offices wire virtually unknown out jelde the largest clelea and in all atlea athe a mall nera carried back and forc between the railroad trains and th post in lagona which never moved at race track speed and cry frequently were greatly delayed by blockades ot street the opening years of the twentieth century however find every city ot any size provided with a complete etem ot branch post offices and cub quickening postal distributions and collections tn every section the community whereat electric tars pneumatic tubes and have larey displaced jbv old fash lowd vehicles in the transportation meld to be sure the transformation la not yet wholly complete and there are yet in in cities a number of wagon routes or carrying pouches between the branch stations and the main post office or between tha main office and the railroad stations however no wever the horses and mules 01 ether days are being rapidly supplanted by electric and cabla cam and there are now in operation in the united states between three hundred and cur hundred routes 0 this new kind in several cities it has been aund po ie to so arrange the electric car majl routes as to entirely discontinue wagon service and the street cars now do only all hat was formerly daae by the tva ons but in addition serve a number of new stations which it was impracticable to establish in the days of elpher mall movement this hurry up r T e Is saving the government money too the average expense par mile traveled trav eleu by the wagons in moving ue U S malls Is 16 cant whereas the cost for the electric and cable car ser ce averages less than 6 cents per nille in cier words the work which pe year when performed by lagona can be handled by electric or cable cars for only per year jt la a after all however whether the greatest mission of the mall cars on ca bleAT electric lines and elevated not found in the quick afforded between fl post office and its branches or sub stations how extensive Is this system of branch post offices may be appreciated from the tact that there are in new york more than two dozen of these supplementary postal estah in boston twenty in calca ro about the same number and in san francisco nearly halt as many the R T WI juas jezz post office authorities are now planning a still further development of the branch office system and to that are urging business boises aol aal ill large patrons of tn postal bermi tl have arpon their stationery number of the carrier and the branch office or from which he Is supplied in most cities there are now in operation on the electric street rall waya postal cars which are duplicates in of the regular steam railway postal care they n balte it possible for letters to be postmarked cortel corte l and distributed in what was formerly wasted time the la already actor in the rapid of coall matter and Is destined to ere long figure even more conspicuously transit jt J t american citizens th a initial introduction ot the automobile in postal service in this country was made at buffalo where an electric phaeton of one ton weight made a run from the main office to a substation sub station in nineteen minutes the return trip consuming but eighteen rol bowl e this speed test a collection talal was made and pounds of mall collected from twenty two regulation boxes and eight packages es boxes tn airee the first talal with a motor constructed espe dally for purposes nl nill took place in and here the knafle a route two in length in th 1 course of which mall wag collected from boxes under ordinary conditions exactly six hours Is consumed by a ol lector with lorsa and wagon in covering this territory but the automobile made the circuit la two hours and twenty seven minutes in detroit a carriers route which ordinarily require two ho ra and thirteen minutes for collection was covered by an auto botille in one hour and eight in washington and other atlea expert meets have aleo demonstrated tha er long there will be a aae ot homeless vehicles can be depended upon to travel over all kerls of roads in all kinds of weather and perform the work ot collection vastly quicker than carta or vona v ona drawn by horses such as are now employed in uran free delivery ce still another important aid to rapid mall handling is found in the pneumatic tube service the principle of this plan for bundles ot lettera through great tubes la exactly the came as that employed for transmitting cash to and from the cashiers desks in many large retail stores the big tubes through which bundles of mall matter are hurled by meana at compressed may be used to connect branch post offices with the main office but an even more valuable utilization Is as link between the main post office and the railway station from which the mall Is dispatched to other cities under the old plan mails were often closed nearly an hour before train ume in order to allow time lor the mall wagon to laboriously make its way through crowded streeta to the railway station with a pneumatic tunnel conne cUne post office and railway station it la possible to keep malls open until a few minutes before a train pulls out the tremendous advantages of the pneumatic tube service have axen conclusively clu paven by iff apoll catlon ia mettr philadelphia boston and brooklyn the adoption 0 this novel underground system of transportation will put n end to the abs which leave been directed against the plan of rushing baah on city to another by fast express trains only to have it met at the railway terminals by aule teams that proceed at the rate of three miles per hour by mcana of the pneumatic tubes from the railway to the post of alco the mafia are ean more by trams at run a mile a ral nuta boino idaa of te aid rendered ren dared sy s pneumatic l jaco ay iy be the it has been abai lae anisa post caa by vice advance about twenty lettera per lay which otherwise nave 10 tn taft post the next mall departure one or the unes ot pontal work t vast fanci baa made in this alme navane age ta conod y la the handy riK 0 the anut la tb post calces the letters ajol pai L adf are fuu shipped place to pao u or leather flacks fastened fast emed with catches not very lck those la use twenty yea ao bat la the mall lcuy ta MS deposited ta theli baes many cj meiba baa beeh by easy new aar impressive la th new for th and the dupca and barcela parcela par cela thia work Is biow dona by machinery and la just sixth the tuna that waa tor merty re t alred by the old method aa able bodied arn years w capert anca to be ie to cancel tampa per minute the machine norr no rr stamps on an ot 00 minute however liy io adeana represents tho ca macly ot a cancell aad on a recent oc cAslon one ol 01 these ma chlieb an now or 1000 per minute tor eight alve toe canceling alu cancel stamps absolutely without to size ot shape ot aba envelopes to which they are ant it Is to by tand the rather 0 backing the letters with the stamped ends all one way ere can e red to the cancellation cel lation machine aad aw now at work upon a which will pick up the heaped letters arrange them tor the cancelling apparatus in about one half th alm required to do it by hand the lower ln 0 ocean recarda batees tor a more the rhalls just as does an increase in the cheed of railway trains but tho authorities ties have lately secured a doubts gain of time in th movement 0 tha th a international mails by perfecting whereby all letters are aborted tor delivery while th steff mer Is crossing the ocean aol aal by tor quicker transfer ot tha lal bars by special bues tues troia iba incoming to th pos offices oa shore so too tha rural free delav cry system la entitled to credit ad ay factor in the cru ade for rapid niall and I 1 finally many minor aids allta way from the extension ot tha special delivery service to the ot mah chuta in larg c are uncle officials to mova letters anore rapidly from wlter to addressee than Is possible ase in the world |
