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The Postal System of The United States and The New York General Post Office

Prepared and Issued by Manufacturers Trust Company New York Brooklyn Queens

THE POSTAL SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES and THE NEW YORK GENERAL POST OFFICE

BY

THOMAS C. JEFFRIES

ASSISTANT SECRETARY MANUFACTURERS TRUST COMPANY

Copyright, 1922, by MANUFACTURERS TRUST COMPANY

Honorable Hubert Work, Postmaster General.

Honorable Hubert Work, Postmaster-General, was a practising physician for many years in Colorado prior to entering government service, and was also President of the American Medical Association. He served as first assistant postmaster-general under Postmaster-General Will H. Hays, his predecessor, who, upon assuming management of the Post-office Department, practically dedicated it as an institution for service and not for politics or profit. Since that time all possible efforts have been made to humanize it.

The administration of Mr. Hays was ably assisted by Mr. Work who had direct supervision of the 52,000 post-offices and more than two-thirds of all postal workers. By persistent efforts to build up the spirit of the great army of postal workers and bring the public and the post-office into closer contact and more intimate relationship, the postal system has been placed at last on a footing of service to the public.

Mr. Work is an exponent of a business administration of the postal service, and representatives of the larger business organizations and Chambers of Commerce, from time to time, are called into conference, in order that the benefit of their suggestions and their experience may be obtained and their fullest co-operation enlisted in the campaign for postal improvement.