River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-06-26
POSTAL STATISTICS.
Facts That VIII Interest You whether
You Expect "A Letter or Not.

Facts That VIII Interest You whether
You Expect a Letter or Not.
The heaviest mail carried over any
mail route in the United States is be-
tween New York and Philadelphia. The
average daily weight of the mail car
ried over this route last year was 201,-
S13 pounds.
For trains carrying the mails the best
time is made on the Lehigh Valley rail
road between Easton, Pa, and Metu-
chen Station, n. j., distance 54.20
miles. The average time of all mail
trains is 40 miles an hour.
The longest continuous run made by
postal clerks is from Omaha to Ogden,
a distance of 1, 035. so miles.
The greatest number of clerks on any
railway post-ofiice line is 351-on the
New York and Chicago.
There are s,257 letter carriers, and
they delivered last year 1,7O3, 2a2, 1876
pieces of mail matter
Total number OF clerks in the rail-
way mail service is ), AS. The number
of casualties last year was 1893. There
were ninety-eight clerks killed and
ninety-five seriously injured.
The total number of pieces of matter
sent to the dead-letter Office was 8, 40, =
293.
The sale of postage stamps OF all
kinds amounted to So, 921, 7s4.1 II.
The weight of the mails dispatched to
foreign countries was ALI, $50 pounds
OF this amount 3,151, sos was sent to
transatlan countries. Great Britain,
leading the list received 1,549, $50;
Germany comes next, having received
644,6 73 pounds, while France is third
with 239, 469 TO her credit.
At the close of the last fiscal year
there were 50, S3s postmasters in the
United States, whose compensation was
S13, 16s, 800, an average salary of $500
each.
The number of clerks employed in
postoflices was 1909. They received for
their services S., 9l9, 3Ol, or an average
of s75s each.
The number of clerks in the railway
mail service was 500 who we're paid an
aggregate sum of S., 234, 967, an average
of s92S each.
The total sum paid by the Govern
ment for the transportation of the
mails, including railroad, steamboat
and star-route service, and also compen-
sation for the use of postal-cars, was
SIS, 1872, 545, 80.
The total sum paid for the transport
tation of foreign mails was 1921, 33S Oh.
The largest sum paid single steam
ship line was SlSs, 633 10 TO the North
German Lloyd. The Cunard Line was
second, having received 500, 312. SO.
There were 10, 324, 24O pieces of matter
sent in the registered mails, and 3,99s
complaints were made of delinquencies
in the service. OF this latter number
1,6l6 cases were reported as losses, but
subsequently the letters or parcels were
received by the persons addressed. In
/, O99 cases il was ascertained that there
was no just ground for complaint, the
irregularity arising from improper adj
dress of the sender, from the failure of
the sender to inclose the sum intended
to have been RENTED, and many other
similar causes. There were SOS cases
in which the investigation resulted in
the restoration of the amount lost to
the proper owners, making a total of
3, 2S3 cases in which no loss was sus-
tanned, leaving us cases in which twas
not possible to make recovery. -Boston
Herald