Show Christmas Christmas Mail Rush Record I I Is Set Post Office Reports i i I The Moab post office started simmering down to near normal conditions this week after record shattering haltering Christmas mall mail loads began to clear away to reveal almost a 50 per cent increase over last year Postmaster J. J Russell Carter pointed out that the only available avail able records on which to base the rate of business was in the sale saie of stamps at the local office for the month of December up UpI to Dec 27 I IThe IThe The stamp sales this year I zoomed to at the local I Ii office Over the same ame period ofa of ofa a year ago the stamp sale figures showed only for a gain over last year of Carter pointed out there was no IT cans of counting the parce parcel post packages that came to the local office but he felt sure the Increase was close to the same I ratio shown in the stamp sales records I Carter said that downtown parcel parcel par par- cel eel delivery would probably be bel kept up for the rem remainder ol of 01 this week This service was Installed Installed In- In stalled to help speed peed delivery of Christmas packages and Carter credits the project with proving a major success So speedily was the mail man han han- died through the lo local al office workers Tuesday were ware pack packing g and storing away cases pases ase and tables table set up earlier t this month to handle the tb Christmas I iru li h. h |