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Show AMERICA'S GIGANTIC BUSINESS In order to take care of the constantly increasing volume of business, Postmaster General New has increased the U. S. post-office post-office staff by 3,200 clerks, 3,000 carriers and 500 laborers. The business of the post office depaitment is not only much greater than ever before, but it is increasing at an unprecedented rate. Even 1 with this additional help, located at important points in the country, ! the post office department will be hard put to handle the business. During the last fiscal year the post office department handled 1 8,-000,000,000 8,-000,000,000 pieces of mail, of which 12,000,000,000 were letters. This was an average of 1 I 2 letters for every man, woman and child in the United States. In addition to the mail carriers and the railway rail-way mail trains, the government uses a fleet of 6,000 motor trucks and an army of rural route conveyances to get the mail delievered. |