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Show All Mall Matter In Counted. IV rrons who roiul tho reports of the i nmutuT of pii'd'S of mail liiatfr lmiiclli'il ;it tho Now York postofllco may have worulorod how tho fiKuna won obtained. Tho explanation i Hiiniilo: Every piore ! wan actually nmnted. livery employer i who stamps mail mafti-r must keep an ' Hi'curnlo account of tlio number of pieces I ho handles and must maW daily report 1 of tho amount of work ho has done, llo must not only give tho rand total, but ' lell what part was in each of tho four j i classes of mail matter, and also how tho I I piece s readied tint postoflieo. Th! letter, etc., nro mailed at the i poHtoliice, in which case they lire known j a.4 "drop.," collected by curriers, arriva j by trains, or, in thu caso of foreign ! matter, am brought by nteamers. A ! report must bo mado of every piece that comes in by any one of theso ways, i When ono considers that an avera.','0 of alxiut (ioO.OOO letters alono reach tho ! general postollico le-ro every day, it will i bo Keen that tho task of counting them ' is a-bi:j one. Lot a jxtm.ii count 1,000 nnd then try to get somo idea of th i I labor involved iu keeping a record of j I 1,000 times that uany, and his head will j ' bwim at tho tliouht. As tho countim; j ! is dono by a number of men. and tha i ' letters aro Hubdivided into batches, tha I i labor is not ho enormous as iuiiht at ! ' first I supposed. New York Tribuue. |