BUSY POST OFFICE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 10 January 1936, Page 3

BUSY POST OFFICE

PULSE OF NATIONAL PROSPERITY (By Air Mail- —From Our Own Correspondent! LONDON, 19th December. No member of the British Cabinet perhaps has his finger more closely on the pulse of our national prosperity than the Postmaster-General. Any upward or downward trend in our economic conditions is promptly “wirelessed” through to St. Martin’s-le-Grand through the business at its far-flung depots and offices throughout the realm. So we may congratulate ourselves nationally on the import of what the Post Office expects to be the busiest Christmas since the war. To cope with the rush, an army of seventy thousand extra hands has been enrolled, a fact which in itself will help to spread the boom, and bring good cheer into many homes up and down the country. The overseas mail looks like beating all records. Last week eightysix tons of letters were posted to Australia alone, which was thirteen tons ahead of last year’s business. While the Canadian post promises also to break record, that to Nigeria is about double the normal.