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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 266

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he offices grow larger the size of the mail-ing case increases and the distribution growsmore elaborate. The mailing case is a case ofpigeonholes, set up before the mailing clerk, eachopening being labeled Boston, Providence, New York, Boston and Albany, etc. Intothe first are put all the letters… … A CARRIER COLLECTING LETTERS FROM A LETTER-BOX. cities so large as to have a box to themselves.Of course, the larger the office is, the more let-ters there will be, and consequently a need formore boxes. Boston, for instance, sends mail-pouches directly to many hundred of the largertowns all over…

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