CHRISTMAS MAILS
A POST OFFICE RUSH BUSINESS ON THE INCREASE. A heavy increase in business, chiefly on the mail side, marked the Christmas holiday returns of the Wanganui Post Office. The mail room staff was compelled to work at full pressure all the time'. The heaviest day was December 22, when 435 bags of mail were despatched and 411 received. All along the figures show big increases over those of the previous year. The stamps sales alone showed a falling off, compared with the previous year. The figures for 1926 show the. sale of £1122 10s worth of stamps, compared with £l3ll 6s for 1925. The following figures make interesting reading:—
Mail Bags Despatched. Dec. 21 1926 421 1925 342 Dec. 22 435 364 Dec. 23 418 355 Dec. 24 368 326 _ .. Totals . . . . 1641 1387 Mail Bags Received. 1926 1925 Dee. 21 393 331 Dec. 22 4.1 1 45!) Dee. 23 390 4 10 Dec. 24 297 206 Totals .. . . 1642 1387 Transit Mails. 1926 1925 Dec. 21 . 103 87 Dee. 22 .. .. 149 93 Dec. 2,3 16ff 119 Dee. 24 .. .. . . 184 79 — — . ■ Totals .. . . 1491 1406 Grand totals . . 3937 3171
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19732, 29 December 1926, Page 6
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188CHRISTMAS MAILS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19732, 29 December 1926, Page 6
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