Word: mail
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...will doubtless surprise some members of the University who have obtained their mail regularly ever since they have been here, to be told that a condition of affairs exists at present in the Cambridge post office which is highly discreditable to the community, and which it would perhaps be possible for members of the University to remedy. Yet such is not far from being the case. A number of persons, among whom are several members of the Faculty, have had occasion to look into the matter and have found that the accommodations for the employes of the post office...
...There is a serious lack of space for delivery windows. On Sunday morning as many as twelve hundred persons 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...
Snite, F J, Mail to 41 Perkins...