Word: mail
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Persons wishing tickets to be sent through the mail should send ten cents in stamps with their application in order to pay for registering the tickets to insure their safe delivery...
...post office,- for nearly a thousand names have been signed to the petition already,- we wish to emphasize a point about which there still seems to be doubt in some quarters, namely as to why University men should concern themselves with a movement like this. They get their mail regularly, so far as they know; what business is it of theirs, they ask, if the government is remiss in the care of its employes, or in any other respect...
...only does the convenience of the patrons of this office at present suffer directly by the lack of space for the delivery of letters and sale of stamps, but indirectly, through the insufficient accommodations, as regards both space and clerical force, for the handling of mail matter within the office...
...There is a serious lack of space for delivery windows. On Sunday morning as many as twelve hundred person call for mail and there is a constant line of people waiting to be served. There is so little space that persons waiting at the window used for the delivery of letters and sale of stamps, cannot help being in the way of those who wish to mail letters or to go to the lock-boxes, and vice versa...
...lack of room for handling the large and constantly increasing amount of mail matter is very seriously felt; and temporary make-shifts have to be resorted to which are far from meeting the needs of the office...