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mote an

esprit de corps

and cooperative attitude that

explain the exceptional unity of effort that is characteristic of the entire organization. One has only to

study the organization for a short time to discover that one of its strongest features is the manifest team-work, the one animating and controlling influence throughout being "the interest of the service/'

it all

The Delivery Division the postal employees probably because they see so many of them and know so much of their faithful work as they plod

Closest to the heart of the public of

all

along day in and day out, in all kinds of weather, with heavy loads weighing down their shoulders and

their

are the letter-carriers. These are twisting their spines all under the Division of Delivery, the superintendent of which is Mr. Charles Lubin. Mr. Lubin entered the service in 1890, as a substitute clerk, and is another example of the executive who has risen, step by step,

through

all

the various clerical grades to supervisory

rank, and then through the various supervisory ranks to his present title. The Delivery Division includes in

personnel, in addition to 2954 letter-carriers, 3621 clerks, 282 laborers, and 1800 substitute employees, so its

that

it

constitutes a small army, in itself.

The New York

post-office covers

both Manhattan

and the Bronx, with a postal population which greatly exceeds the population as shown by the census. To New York gravitate daily hundreds of thousands of people who are employed in Manhattan and the Bronx but

who

reside in Brooklyn, New Jersey, Long Island, Hundreds of thousands of others reside

or elsewhere.

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