In its determination to help blind people to become self-reliant, the magazine had encouraged a blind man named Joseph Tyman to set up an express and delivery business. Each month he was paid to haul the 200 sacks of the bulky magazine to the Post Office. At first, all these mail bags were taken in horse-drawn carts.

The magazine's dedication to helping blind people extended to employing them. Blind women were hired to proofread the brass plates from which the raised dots were embossed. At least one blind man was employed to operate the press, and for one week each month, blind women collated the sheets that made up each issue. The "girls" called this their week of happiness. "They love to earn the money we pay them and also the change in getting away from their narrow lives," Holmes explained. The collation procedure was simplicity itself. All 400,000 sheets of paper that made up each month's issue were arranged in piles in numerical order on a very large table. The women walked round and round the table picking up one sheet from each pile, so putting together one complete issue. Assembled issues were handed to the operator of a stitching machine that stapled the pages together. The stitching machine could be operated by a blind person.

It is significant that the most efficient worker in the collating department was a young deaf and blind woman. Evidently, she was never distracted and could fully concentrate on what she had to do.