Show NEW YORKS POST OFFICE thirty million milli n u foreign letters carus into oar 0 country 7 ry last year the th most interesting details which can be told of the new york post office relate to the amount of business transacted ac W d in ill each division for only in this manner man n er can ca I 1 I 1 a true idea of th the importance of this ollice he be til 1 14 twined ined says harpers peep 1 a e already given taj grand totals atals hut but these are arc made up of many interesting items for F or instance the international money orders received and certified to europe in 1891 1801 numbered dumb arc d nearly a million and aggregated nearly sixteen r and a half millions mill of dollars the try with which the new york post omee 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 al 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 wore were handled by carriers and the sale of postage stamps stamped envelopes etc amounted to OC nearly letters were forwarded to and nearly received from forc for iRTi eigin countries country elthe e lt the now new york post easily handling over three fourths of our foreign mail we should lose faith irr in the intelligence of the human race on learning that in this one office goa 93 ml 1 di erected arad insufficiently addre sod letters ecna i era received did we not learn at the same time that of these ther c letters were corrected and forwarded by other members of 0 f the human race the items of mail matter handled averaged for each day and the number of pouches the aggregate for the year lacing being letters and pouches the postmaster tex receives a salary of a year a very small sum when the business of 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 ln in 1891 for clerk hire and an express company does the tha carting under contract |