Show NEW YORKS POST OFFICE thirty million foreign letters came into our oar country lat last year tear the most interesting details which can be told of the new york post office relate to the amount of business transacted in each division for only in this manner can a true idea of the importance of this office be obtained says saya Ilar harpers pers young people I 1 have already given the grand totals but the these s e are made up of many interesting items for instance the international money orders received and certified to europe in numbered nearl nearly y a million and aggregated nearly sixteen and a half millions of dollars the european country with which chic h the new york post office had the largest transactions through its money order department was great britain the items amounting to nearly half a million the bahamas were at the foot of the list with only fifty eight items the total number of items in the registry department was nearly three hundred million items of mail matter were handled by carriers and the sale of postage stamps stamped envelopes etc amounted ed to 96 bearly nearly letters were forwarded to and nearly received from foreign countries the new york post office easily handling over three fourths of our foreign mail we should lose faith in the intelligence of the human race on learning that in th this is one offie office misdirected and insufficiently addressed letters were received did we not learn at the same time th that at 4 of these letters were corrected and forwarded b by v other members of the human race the items of mail matter handled averaged aged for each day and the number of pouches W the aggregate for the year being letters and pouches the postmaster receives a salary of a year a very small smal sum when the business of theoffice the office is considered but then he have to receive face postmark sort and distribute every letter himself in fact he even drive a mail wagon for he spent in 1891 for clerk hire and an express c company does the carting under contract |