Job Description:

• 1) Sorts and routes telegrams received by pickup and delivery section of telegraph office: Folds and places messages in envelopes for delivery.

• 2) Receives requests for message pickup within area served by telegraph office.

• 3) Routes messages to customers within city via private telegraph wire or telephone, and to customers in distant cities via telegraphic-typewriter or Morse telegraphy.

• 4) Reads maps to sort messages and pick-up requests into routes.

• 5) Dispatches TELEGRAM MESSENGER.

• 6) Receives and records remittances returned for messages picked up.

• 7) Reads messages for errors.