| Show > o 4 CXX O I OUR POSTOFFICE The effect of the approach of the holiday season is already felt at the postoffice especially at the money order or-der deparfment A month ago yesterday yes-terday for instance the number of international in-ternational orders issued was ten while yesterday 54 were issued + + + The volume of business transacted at the office steadily increases and the report for this year will show a big advance over last + + + A lady now presides at one of the delivery windows She is Miss Annie Crofton a Salt Lake girl who at the civil service examination this year headed the entire list of applicants in the percentage in her paper G 4 4 The arrangement of the doors entering en-tering the postofflce seems to be defective defect-ive They swing in and the result is Or that the ladies persist in getting their noses bumped and every gust of wind swings the doors open and chills the lobby If they swung outward the noses would be saved and the temperature tem-perature of the lobby would be kept more uniform + + + People who received letters yester I day observed that the envelopes were marked and the stamps cancelled In anew a-new way The explanation of It is that the longpromised electric can celler has arrived and Is at work and it is an immense improvement over the old system as has been thoroughly demonstrated by Its use in the larger cities With the machine about 28000 letters are postmarked in an hour and its advantages are not confined to the laborsaving features The postmark Is always as legible as print and this is frequently highly important as It gives the day and hour of posting The mark is as follows SALT LAKE CY UTAH DEC 10 330 P M 96 |
