Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-12
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
nail 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 $500
miles. The average time of all mail
trains is 40 miles an hour.
The longest continuous run made by
I postal clerks is from Omaha to Ogden,
a distance of 1,O35. so miles.
The greatest number of clerks on any
railway post-office line is 351-on the
| New York and Chicago
There are S,257 letter carriers, and
| they delivered last year 1,703, 262, 1856
! pieces of mail after.
Total number of clerks in the rail.
way mail service is 5, 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 6. 49,
293.
The sale of postage stamps of all
kinds amounted to $52, 921, 7S4.17.
The weight of the mails dispatched to
foreign countries was 4, Ill, $50 pounds.
OF this amount 8, ISL, sos was sent to
transatlantic countries. Great Britain,
leading the list, received 1,549, $50;
Germany comes next having received
644,673 pounds, while France is third
with $780, 400 to her credit.
At the close of the last fiscal year
there were 59,S3S postmasters in the
United States, whose compensation was
$13, 1853, 900, an average salary of 1920
each.
The number of clerks employed in
postoffiees was 7,S09. They received for
their services SIS, 9l9, 3O1, or an average
of S75S each.
The number of clerks in the railway
mail service was 5,64O who were paid an
aggregate sum of SIS, 234, 967, an average
of $92S each.
The total sum paid by the Govern
ment for the transportation of the
mails, including railroad, steamboat
anu StdT-TOuJo SeEFlCSs dHo dlSO COIU pen
sation for the use of postal-cars, was
$25, 732 545 So
The total sum paid for the transport
tation of foreign mails was 1921, 33S. 03.
The largest sum paid single steam
ship line was $1Ss, 1888. 10 to the North
German Lloyd. The Cunard Line was
second, having received 500, 312.53.
There were 49, 324, $40 pieces of matter
sent in the registered mails, and 1898
complaints were made of delinauencies
in the service. OF this latter number
1916 cases were reported as losses, but
the letters or parcels were
received by the persons addressed. In
l, 099 cases it was ascertained that there
was no just ground for complaint, the
arising from improper ad-
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 total OF
8, 2S3 cases in which no loss was sus-
leaving 715 cases in which it was
rot possible to make recovery.-Boston
Herald.