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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