![]() ![]() ![]() In Brooklyn there were two distances, the one 1.63 and the other 3.60 miles, the time being 27 and 35 minutes. To the query, "Distance in miles from your main office to the principal railroad depot to which you send, or from which you receive, the largest portion of your mail matter?" The answers received were: In New York the distance was 3.23 miles time occupied, 40 minutes. In the endeavor to become familiar with the many conditions of the initial movement of mail matter in the leading cities, a series of questions was addresses to postmasters, and the following answers were received. But why should that same letter on its way from the General Post-Office in New York to the Forty-second Street depot, during its first transit, take at the very least forty minutes to go over an insignificant 3.23 miles? Or as much time again on arrival at Chicago? There are, then, always two delays. Once put in the mail-car it tears along at the rate of say forty-five miles an hour until it reaches its destination. A letter is mailed from New York to Chicago. ? the assurance of the perfect safety of the object r?d and delivered, it is the element of speed which ?amount, but the entire system of post-office is ?fault so far as relates to the initial movement of mail matter in the large cities. The perfect postal service is really nothing more than an express business. Nevertheless there are in all the great centers of population delays more or less vexatious in the starting of mail matter. Methods of handling large masses of matter are marvelous for celerity. Postal trains running at the highest rate of speed carry the mails. ![]() No possible fault can be found with the general expedition. The postal service of the United States is in a measure accountable for the length of time taken in the preliminary forwarding of mail matter. WHY SHOULD THE MAIL SERVICE IN CITIES BE SO SLOW? The pictures associated with this article can be found below the text. Found in the Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization (American political magazine based in New York City) of Saturday August 8, 1896. ![]()
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