Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-10-24
10000 PARCEL
POST PACKAGES
Received HERE:
Yearly Average Shows How Pine
Bluffians Buy From Mail
Order Houses.
OUTGOING PACKAGES
NUMBER FAR LESS
Pcstoffice Reports Indicate Tremen-
dous Growth of City-Quarterly
Receipts 22,0O0-Money Or
ders $1,00O,00O Annually.

There's no halt-nOt even a pause
in Pine Bluffs continuous growth.
Evidence of this is furnished by the
postal business, accepted everywhere
as about the very best barometer of
whether community is experience
ing fair or foul conditions. The one
fly in the ointment, as disclosed by
the Pine Bluff postoffice business, is
that incoming parcel post packages
far exceed in number the outgoing
parcel post packages. This is due
to the great number of purchases
made from mail order houses by peo-
pie who earn their money in Pine
Bluff.
During the fifteen days from Oc-
tober 1 to October Is, inclusive, g.
$50 parcel post packages were re-
ceived at the Pine Bluff postoffice
for distribution to people in the city
and on rural routes out of the city.
In the same time, parcel post pack
ages mailed here totalled 1928. TAX
ing the figures for the Is days as
fair average, they indicate that in
year something like 10000 parcel
post packages come to Pine Bluff PEG.
ple-most of them from mail order
houses. In the same time, about &c.
600 packages are mailed by local
folk. Both incoming and outgoing
parcel post business shows an in
crease over that Of 1916. when the
last tabulation was made. In the
period from October 1 to IS of 1916.
there were 5.178 packages received
here while 2.942 were mailed at the
local office. The weight of the 1923
parcel post packages mailed here dur
ing the first Is days of October ex-
ceeded the weight of "a bales of cot
ton, the exact figures being 1888
pounds. Postage on this was $405. 443.
Money Orders Large.
Receipts of the local office. not in
Guiding money orders. for the three
months ending Septem Der 80, totalled
S22,795, 10. an increase of 81 sos over
the same period last wear.
The local office sold 1858 money
orders in the three months, the or
ders averaging about $3.50 each. The
total amount sent out of Pine Bluff
thru postal orders was SS4,404 60.
However Pine Bluff got back all but
about $4,000 of this sum. the local
office cashing in the three-month
period 1912 orders calling for an ag
grn"ate of $50 ,65O.38.
During the same neriod there was
transferred to the Pine Bluff office
the depository for a nnmber Of Of
fees in this district SCI .636.08 of
money order funds. This brings the
total money order business transact
ed at tho local office in three months
I'M tn s206. 691.14, equal to nearly
81 100000 a wear.
These figures we've obtained from
+ahulaticns comniled bv Assistant
Postmaster G.. 2. Duvall and for
"'arded +n WASHINGTON bv Postmaster
John Wilbourne The report on re-
cnipts and money orders are made up
QUARTERLY but compilation of figures
IN MARCEL post business is made only
1T intervals, upon instructions from
Washington.
Is Industry Itself.
Deerite the increase IN business of
tho Pine Bluff nostnffice. Washing
ton has not anthoriznd an enlarge
went IF tho force. Due to resiona
tons and illnees +he postmaster is
short four ueop]n at this tin,e. Thnre
arc three vscar"ies in clorkships to be
filled. The Pine Rl,H office pro-
vides enorlovr,arA for 38 oeonle, who
draw about 81 aoo month from the
government Sixteen of these are
clerks. eleven carriers in the citv,
sevor corriers IN r,ral routes. and
two ianitors. This is exclusive of
thrnn substitute c"rriors who have
henr "sed frequently Of 1a+e
With nm Investment If building and
en1ipr1ent If about 100000 DOING an
""nnal business Of something more
than wilton oivino employment t."
20 nconln and with YEARLY nav
~o'' cf about SeO.Oon. it is apparent
thn+ TFnclo Sar,'s Pine Ruff nostof-
f'"o ;r not the least of the citv's en-
terprises.