POSTAL AND TELEGRAPHIC

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 78, 26 December 1907, Page 3

POSTAL AND TELEGRAPHIC

iVv"-;.-T--rt T -4r-.,, ; ..;:.- ';;■-■■, THE HOLIDAY-RUSH. '■■ '.Meu worked, in: (he Post' Office on Tuesday from 6 a.m. till 9.3 ft: p.m.,'; and-many of them had' no .time for tea. .They; had the satisfaction- of; earning over-time' rates, and of ■ serving ■a\Cliristmns-licnrt6d .public, .anxious to receive and send'greetings ..of remembrance, and a'flec•Tho sale of stamps 'for the Holiday , period,: December .17' to 24.; shows a slight de.'crease; on the figures of last .rear, owing ; mainly,, no'doubt, .to'the increased amount of i.mail. matter' which can now bo sent for ri. .penny. The value of stamps sold, during the Tho quantities', of mail matter-*delivered bv Jctfer-cnrricrs. from December 20 to -H inchifyf:,^rV -1 " foll °'"'' the . c °':«*P°»ding\figures ■(Sr-/.i !,0 /o- o?\ ng glven " ln brackets :-Letters, 0 /-?'®' P ° StCards " B7;337 < 87 ' 253 >- 9G,6t0 ..(51,598) i • newspapers,. 2.5,075 (21,167); par;cpl?,: 4o8; (234). In this direction, therefore, there has .been' a- substantial increase '• •. ■ ..'■ahe )number •of 'liaprs of mails despatched ■ from December 1, to 2J (both, dates inclusive) was, -USB:: hampers despatched, 13,391; bags received, ;i0,351;, hampers received, 13)6 .The total number, of ■ parcels received,. from ■December.2o; to 24' (both dates inclusive),- was,o22; and the total .number posted 3310 lhe. .number-of tcleKrams taken over the :«?« n fe jl 0 . f:t K,' main 'P ffice on Tuesday was over 6300, and Hie number delivered over 6500 In'-.oach . case the. figures' exceed by about' a thousand those of Christmas Eve last vpnr In addition 13,000. telegrams passed .through the hands of the Wellington officials, in\ the'course of transmission'to other offices.