HEW YORK'S GREAT POSTAL BUSINESS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 107, 6 May 1913, Page 9

HEW YORK'S GREAT POSTAL BUSINESS.

A statement just issued-of the bnsineas transacted at the General Post Office and stations of the City of New York during the calendar year 1912 shows -total Teceipts of 25,747,243 doßars, an increase of 1,557.123 dollars over the previous year, lio less -than 3,006ji531 dtiila-rs of this was from sates of stamps at. the 233 sub-stations about the city. The money orders issued numbered 10,914JJ22 for in aggregate value of doßars, whHe the-fees for isgaing tlrem were 254576 dollars. There were also received during 'Che year, pieces of regiebercd matter, and delivered. The special delivery letters mailed in tie city numbered 554,-*B3,- ami the number -delivered 1,418,327. This record dM noiv include Brooklyn or Staten Island or any of the territory not in the old City of New York, ■which was practically restricted to Manhattan -Island, as the Greater New York area has never ljeea recognised by the Post Office Department, andthe postmasters of Brooklyn and other pJaees are just asnrach. independent «p----ponrfanente of the federal Government as they erer -were. While the receipts of the General Poet Office -were 6,883,601 dollars, the hn-portance of some of the cub-offices would make another sized .city green wfth envy, one, for instance, thit of the Wall Sfcree Branch, which j toj . dollars, with the Madison Sqnnm Produce • Exchange. Hudson TernniTi.il, .Grand Ce'nfral, and one or two other branches well over *he roiliion. if not, ac in two j instances, above two mffliou dollars. I