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Show uu BIGGEST CHRISTMAS MAIL IN NEW YORK New York, Dec. 24. While lale shoppers were surging through the crowded, sloppy street of tho retail districts in a pouring rain today. Uncle Un-cle Sam's mall men were busy delivering deliv-ering what Is said to be the biggest Christmas mail wcr handled bv tho local postofflce. The general powtolllcc, with Its 50 branch stations, was tho real holiday storm center, it being calculated that upwards of 40,n(o,00 pieces of mall j were being handled Records were brokerr also, it is believed, be-lieved, In tho volume of Christmas mall received this year. The calculation calcula-tion Is that more than 20,000.000 letters let-ters and post cards and alout SO.OiM).-000 SO.OiM).-000 pieces of the lower classes of mall were brought here in the 2l,Cyo sacks carried by the five late arriving trans-Atlantic trans-Atlantic liners. |