Show POSTOFFICE FEELS CHRISTMAS RUSH B Busy sy Clerks Almost Submerged Under Deluge of Mail BIG REGISTRY BUSINESS eo c Handled Ye Yesterday Num Numbered 1 I 1000 Mure Than ruin ii Ti flao umme e Handled a Year Ago u. u The TIme Christmas rush i at the lie lice nce has be begun un In earnest Tons and tons ons of oC packages es and amid registered mattar mattei matter mat mat- tar ter are being handled bandied dally daily all In the lie local postoffice and amid last night four foul solid cars QC jf mall mail matter left this city for Los Angeles there to be distributed to o the time coast cities In Imi tIme the registry regis regis- lr try department delai more inure than limn 1000 registered parcels were wele hand Imand handled led yes yes- em day In Iii excess of or the hc same number handled out one year cal ago no This means that hat rull fully six thousand pieces of oC registered l matter maller passed through the lie local pos outward out bound yester tIn lay day When the tIme department windows open opened cd yesterday O morning there was a aline along along long line of If people waiting to be sene sen e ed Tho line hue was maintained all nIl day ay and e CI every evemy window was wras open and doIng do- do III lug Ing a rushing business b from the lie opening open In ing hour hout to tu the close of the tIme daysI days day's I business LI 5 i U Every clerIc clerk in time the was working lo to the lime limit yesterday an and amid not an hue was vas spent dOting during dOt dur ring r- r ing ing- the lie entire re lIa day I In ii the main workroom work worle- room of oC the lie the lie clerks handling I I the 01 outgoing gui ug mall I wore were eret t al nil all I IlaY day lining sack after r suck sack Idi it with letters and packages In Inthe the he racks sucks sacks of mal matter were I stacked up toil tell and anti fifteen high wailIn wailIng wail wail- In Ing imig lo to be le taken a keim t h In it the lie trains and III lo their theil distillations The distributing clerks were IJ busy lusy su sorting mail waif for car cam s and amid boxes from nun early in iii the thc morning and all through the night t. t The cancelling machine kept up iii an all Incessant hum hum all tIa day and amid continued all nigh night t. t It will be so until time the holiday holiday holi hell day time tinie ib Js u CI Inline 1 Duck Bud tick I Department I. I Not lIl the tho least bit of oC tIme the ml added work vot-lc of the lie po Is found in the Lame Duck Department DC This de department de- de e- e the lie business S o of which its name nume would never nC reveal cal o 0 the outsider out out- si sider cl is designed to lo take lake care of mail mall matter at t en lOVI provided d el with vl Ii I insufficient postage imp ope I addressed malter mutter matter which Is defective c in Iii one or more points It i Is there that many arc are thrown out of the thc mail mall because of oC their offensive e pictorial hal matter mathI A stack of lIf Ilo lRI- lRI and amid letters rising ng- ng to a surprising ng- ng height h t. t was as seen yesterday in lii this department In iii this stack was a large number of which bore no po addresses ses what what- ever el rime Tho lJ backs were tilled filled out but bLit that was all One of oC those these and It II was vas one omie that caused much merriment merri meat ment in m the lie or office bore the Iho picture of two lovers seated scaled on a couch wrap- wrap lied in iii each others other's arms arais It bore the legend Starting things ri right ht In Salt Lake Lale Added to this were a few rew ow words from the sen sender er Inviting the person tot for whom It H was intended oll to come to Utah mali and lr try the ment lent J o lUlo CHUM C Trouble In In this department el too tuo there is isU isa a U great deal of unnecessary work put upon the lie department by chess careless s persons per sons who write on the face of postal cards All of ot these have to be he held in iii inthe inthe the until a cat d c can n be sent to lo the sender notifying ln him hini that an nn ad- ad stamp Is required before the lie postal can be sent through the lie mall mail The law which was wa r recently passed ad admitting ud- ud writing wi on the lie face Cace of postal cal cards I does not go so into effect until March darchi 1 1907 and amid until that thal time all cards cat bearing writing on omi their faces Caces have to be thrown out of the mall mail Tho postmaster calls the tho attention of or the to this point and arid requests 1 that they u use e more care In the sending of or the tho souvenir r feature canine of the lie ChrIstmas ru rush h that places upon the d department eri ii I a a great iii eat t den deal I of or n additional 1 1 1 I inn I w v v ork rk i Is li the mall mail 1 I- I sent n l t to Santa Claus Claus' i A great number of or these letters are arc handled every overy day by the tho all have ha to be Lie sent ent to the letter etter oll cc to be ut han handled lc again there Try a SIl Substation I Postmaster Thomas calls attention lo III I the lie public to lo the fact that at each sub station of the thc Salt 11 Lake lie City s is In the lie sanie manner manlier as s at the general o ollice c Money orders registering ing antI and mailing mallin mall mall- in lug ing may bo ho done there and the time mall mail matter mailer will be care cared for with the thc S same me dispatch as us at cit the thu general Postmaster Post Post- master Thomas desires the lie public to todo todo todo do their postal business with tho lie sta- sta louis lions nearest their homes and places of or business inc thus thins distributing the lie work worl of or the Salt Sail Lake and doln doing away with th the possibilities of oC congestion congestion tion lion and amid dela delay in the lar larger el The rime list of oC with their thell locations II Is us ao follows Station A. A t Eighth East gast and anti Second South streets Caldor's rs Park station corner Thirteenth South an and Seventh Se l East streets Fort Douglas station Fort Douglas Murray ay station Murray SU l station corner Twelfth Ii South and Twelfth East t str streets ct Station 1 t I. I No C G South Main street Station 2 2 23 N street Station i South S Seventh East street 1 I Station I I. I corner center First Finst South and Fifth West streets Station Ci C. C I West South Temple street Station 6 com corner r Stale State and Fourth South streets sh Station 7 1 t South Main street Station 8 S. S corner Ninth Kast 1 and Tenth South streets Station East Cast Fourth South L. Station 10 W 38 Vest Third North street streel Station 11 11 South West Temple street Station 1 13 1101 West Eighth South str street Ct Station 14 H f Zd GJ West Third South street Station IS Th i SiC i Eighth I South o street Station Iff ir corner cornel Eleventh South ant and streets At tachi of oC tlene e. e stations the till clerks will receive packages s for registry letters letter sell seU st stamps ml and muncy orders and transact transact trans trans- act all time the business In iii tho ho same sume manner as ati Is done one a at ute lie main maimi |