 | Albert Shaw - American literature - 1905 - 1626 pages
...Department, however, uses pneumatic tubes for the transmission of mail matter between main and branch offices in the cities of New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and St. Louis. In France, Italy, and elsewhere, local deliveries are expedited by the use of auto mobiles. Switzerland... | |
 | Paul Samuel Reinsch - United States - 1909 - 920 pages
...Department, however, uses pneumatic tubes for the transmission of mail matter between main and branch offices in the cities of New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and St. Louis. In France, Italy, and elsewhere, local deliveries are expedited by the use of automobiles. Switzerland... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads - 1920 - 376 pages
...engineers, auditors, and the final briefs submitted by the owners and the Post Office Department, "That the tubes as now installed for carrying letter mail are...for proper postal service and should be continued * * *." The volume of mail has undoubtedly increased and particularly the parcel post mail. The tubes,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Com. on post offices and post roads - 1920 - 384 pages
...engineers, auditors, and the final briefs submitted by the owners and the Post Office Department, "That the tubes as now installed for carrying letter mail are...for proper postal service and should be continued * * *." The volume of mail has undoubtedly increased and particularly the parcel post mail. The tubes,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee - 1924 - 178 pages
...cost, compared with present cost of 49 cents per mile." 7. Facts established by Bankhead con9ressional commission, 1917. — The Bankhead Commission stated...the so-called Bankhead congressional committee on pneumatic-tube service, which reported in 1917, attempted to make a comparison between the cost of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the post offic and post roads - 1935 - 94 pages
...Office Department and the tube companies, the commission has reached the following conclusions : " 1. That pneumatic tubes as now installed for carrying...Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and St. Louis, but that extensions are necessary in St. Louis to obtain adequate tube service. " 2. That being an... | |
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that pneumatic tubes as now installed for carrying letter mail are necessary for proper postal service and should be continued in the cities of New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and St. Louis. 