Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-25
ALL CHR|STMASEVE
RECORDS IN PARCEL
POST ARE BROKEN
5,726 Sacks Received at City
Post Office-0ther Mail
Statistics.

Carriers and other workers of the
Washington city post Office are busy
today placing the last of the Christ
mas parcels which flooded into the
office yesterday until last midnight
into the hands of recipients through
out the city. There was one de-
livery of first-class mail today. and
parcels are being delivered all day
long.
All 'day-before-C Christmas" records
were broken yesterday. when 1926
sacks of parcel post matter were
received at the city post office-the
.argest number ever received III one
day by the local Office. Only 5.125
sacks of incoming parcels were re-
ceived December "a. 1918. and that
terday.
Gifts Delivered To-Day.
All of these thousands OF gifts will
be delivered today and start will be
made upon the parcels which con-
tinue to arrive "a the city post
Office today from all part,, of the
country. Evidently people through
out the. United States Were not
as well instructed in the snail
early" necessity as were the people
of the National Capital, for thousands
of parcels are coming into the post
office, and many persons, of necessity
will not get their gifts until tomor-
row.
More than 100 trucks and twenty
four horse-drawn wagons are being
used today By the post Office in the
delivery of the last-minute Christmas
parcels. The sy stem of former years
of unloading the parcels on the side
walk and then delivering them TO peo-
pie in block has been discarded and
parcels are delivered fresh from the
trucks and wagons.
Large parcels to the number OF
Il SIS were delivered yesterday, to
say nothing of uncounted small par
GELS delivered by the regular postmen
on routes in all sections of the city
The number of outgoing sacks of par
GELS fell yesterday to the very small
number of 654, as contrasted with
600 a day. as had been mailed here
during the past week, showing how
well the people of Washington needed
the admonition to mail early"
Outgoing Letters. 752.495.
Outgoing letters fell to 752,495 yes
terday. as ContraSted with the 1900
600 of the day before. The larger pro-
portion of all these cards was de-
iivered here. being Christmas greet
ines-- So we'll had Washingtonians
attended TO their mailing, officials OF
the city post Office declared today
that last night the corridors of the
big city post Office were not jammed
rs in former years, and the Office was
enabled to take down the extra parcel
post counters placed il, the corridor
and handle what mail there was
through the regular windows.
The same conditions were revealed
at the substations throughout the
city, the temporary stations estab.
lished for the holiday season closing
for good at S o'clock last night. There
was little mailing being done.
Postmaster Chance ON Job.
City Postmaster Merritt O. Chance
worked at the Office until last mid
night. and was back at the office at
O'Clock this morning. not going FOR
breakfast until . o'clock.
Hundreds of persons in southern
states will be disappointed in not get.
ting Christmas gifts on time, but car
thank the senders who did not mai
the parcels early enough. Big stacks
I of parcels are being sorted in the
local city post office for southern
states, and hundreds OF more sacks
came in today. The local Office is z
terminal for parcel post distributor
for certain Of the southern states.