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Show WANAMAKEKS DEPARTMENT. tacts That Will Interest Yon Whether You Expect s Letter or Not. Boston Herald. The heaviest mail carried over any mail route in the Unite States is between New York aud Philadelphia: The average daily weight of the mail carried over this route last year was 201,813 pounds. For trains carrying the mails the best time is made on tho Lehigh Valley railroad rail-road between Easton, Pa., and Metu-chen Metu-chen Station, N. J., distance tifty-foiir and oue-tweulieth miles. The average times of all mail trains is forty miles an hour. The longest continuous run made by postal clerks is from Omaha to Ogden. a distance of l.oaJ.oO miles. . , The greatest number of clerks on any railway postoflice line is 851 on the New York and Chicago. There are 8,257 letter earners, and they delivered last year 1,703,22,430 pieces of mail matter. Total number of clerks in the railway mail service is 6,448. The number of casualties last year was 193. Three clerks wero killed and ninety-live seriously seri-ously injured. The total number of pieces of matter sent to tho dead-letter office was 0,471),-293. 0,471),-293. The sale of postage stamps of all kinds amounted to $52,921,784.17. The weight of the mails dispatched to foreign countries was 4,111,852 pounds. Of this amount 3,151,555 was seut to trans-Atlantic countries. Great Britaiu, leading the list, received 1,549.689; Germany comes next, having received 644,073 pounds, while France. is third will) 239,469 to her credit. At tho close of the last year fiscal year there were 59,838 postmasters in theUnited States, whose compensation was $18,168,990, an average, salary of $220 each. The number of clerks employed in postoflice was 7,809. They received for their services $5,919,301, or an average of $758 each. Tlie number of clerks in the railway mail service was 5,610, who were paid an aggregate sum of $5,234,067, an average of $928 each. The total sura paid by the government govern-ment for the transportation of the mails, including railroad, steamboat, and star route service, and also compensation for the use of postal cars, was $25,732,-545.59. $25,732,-545.59. The total sum paid for transportation of foreign mails was $521,338.03. The largest sum paid a single steamship lino was $188,633.19 to the North German Lloyd. The Cunard Line was second, having received $100,812.53. There were 13.324,240 pieces of. matter mat-ter sent in the registered mails, aud 3,998 complaints were made of delinquencies delin-quencies in the service. Of this latter number 1,610 cases were reported as losses, but subsequently the letters or parcels were received by the persons addressed. In 1,099 cases it was as eertaiued that there was no just ground for complaint, the irregularity arising from improper address of the sender, from the failure of tho sender to inclose the sum intended to have been remitted, and other similar causes. There were 5B8 cases in which the investigation resulted in the restoration of the amount lost to the proper owners, making mak-ing a total of 3,283 'cases in which no loss was sustained, leaving 715 cases in which it was not possible to make recovery. |