New York Post Office [pp. 193-203]

APPLETONS' JOURNAL.
THE NIE W YORK POST-OFFICE.
THE average number of letters passing through proportions of this postal business, going on day and
the New York Post-Office daily is 679,094, night, with scarcely an instant of cessation, we cantheir weight is 148,183 pounds, and in the transpor- not fail to realize that the machinery involved is ex
NEW YORK POST-OFFICE.
tation I,429 mail-bags are employed. These figures tensive in exact proportion to the amount of labor
,do not include the vast bulk of newspapers, circulars, performed, and requires the constant care and unreand other printed matter, with which the mails are mitting watchfulness of a great number of men
filled. If we reflect a moment upon the enormous whose pride it is that they have helped to make this
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