Identifier: streetrailway03amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ST. LOUIS POSTAL CAR. a. m. from the post office, and arrives at Cabanne at 7oclock. It is met at the ten or twelve stations bj thecarriers throughout the adjacent districts. LeavingCabanne at 9 oclock the mail is delivered at the postoffice at 9:33, and the car lies over until 9:50 when thenext trip is made. The system obviates the delay, expense and trouble ofbringing local mail to the post office, distributing, cancel-ing and receiving all along the line. City letters thus canbe delivered in 30 minutes. The amount of mail handled by the street railway pos-tal system amounts to 5,000 letters a day. Forty-nine car-riers are supplied and relieved of their post office trips and,as above narrated, three round trips are made each day. Postmaster Harlow reports to the Postmaster Generalthat the S3stem is entirely satisfactory and meets therequirements of the local service to a degree of perfectionunobtainable by any other method. The General Committee of Engineering Societies forthe Expos

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