Deseret Evening News | 1899-12-23 | Page 1 | The Rush at the Post Office

rUE RUSH AT TilE TUE POST OFFICE Enormous Increase in the of Registered Packages Sent Boxes Pouring In Front From All Directions Today Dle big bt rush nuh of holiday busIness at 14 culminated lodl today y when It loUS records were simply loot 01 o I 1 The rush here Is ta ad Thornas to 10 the thee icy e and the amount or of holiday I out o from Salt Lake has hus never nevern t n a b tore For several 11 11 Past the sale eale of stamps alone hits Jt 1100 n day larger huger than for the l A I to the number ot of registered t e sent out for the quarter Year October November Md and December there thero were pieces regis registered So tar far this quarter the num bt bar Is with ct to hear from rein so 10 It Is sale enle to that th the will be at least 2000 The increasing malls matis on Friday night and morning brOught hun hundreds hundreds ot of packages and Ill iii though the full Cull flood of these pack packages es will not strike the tonIght When tM tiO mall carriers started out on their rounds this morning they looked like a squad of Santa Clauses In gra gray uniforms each ono one staggering under an immense lond of packages of all descriptions