Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-05-30

OihSo Uuoiucoo 10.
VIII quoted all the following statistics
on II. And he is mighty proud of 1t.
He says. the last year | was down
there In every single hour OF the "a. one
million four hundred thousand letters
were mailed. In every day 33 million.
Fourteen billion postage stamps. One
billion two hundred and fifty million
lion stamped envelopes. There is $780,
900 postal workers serving our 10 mil
lion people. 43 rural mail carriers serv-
ing seven million families. The p. o.
use 500, 900 miles. mot yards) Of Irvine
Just to tie packages OF letters. enough
to circle the earth 80 times. $500 900
pounds OF paper are used just to mana
facture post cards, debts totalling n
billion five hundred million are paid
through the Post Office money order de-
partment. There are five hundred thou
sand depositors on Postal Savings. A
larger number than in any other bank
ing institution in the world. and rs per
cent are Of foreign extraction. Sixty-ive
million mail sacks are in use all the
time. and 1t takes six million yards OF
canvas every year Just to replenish the
supply. There is twice as much busi-
ness done In the Post Office Of New
York City alone as in the whole OF the
great Dominion Of Canada.
An average OF more than $4,000 let
tiers every day in New York City are re-
addressed from city directories. Nine
teen million letters every year go to the
dead letter office because OF careless
ness OF the writer's. all charged to the
taxpayer. II that alone was rectiied 1t
would do ava with a Post Office deficit.
The Parole Post is the greatest express
company in the world. and handles
more than two billion five hundred mil
lion packages.
All the above Is Hays speaking. but
from statistics of that time. and he goes
on to say, Nov Will. all this sounds
like Ripley, Believe IL Or Not, but hon.
estly its a swell business and a great
business. Its the biggest distinctive bus
mess in the world, and m nearer to
the innermost interests OF a greater
number of people than any other insti-
tuition on earth. II makes thousand OF
scattered communities into a state. It
makes all states into a Nation. Without
1t business would lanquish In a day. and
be at a standstill in a week, public opin.
ion would die OF dry rot. ! will never
cease to appreciate the relation OF that
figure in grey to the daily lives on our
whole 10 million people. He is apart
Of the vast business which can be tab
ulated In terms Of annual turnover and
number of employees and curves Of
profit and loss like any other business.
but which Is never the less the strang-
est, most human. and most romantic
business in which men were ever en-.
gagged. Now that | have got that on m
chest, | remember. VIII, that | don't
have to sell the Post Office Department
to you. | shall never forget the talk we
had, after you had just told those Army
Mail pilots goodbye 10 Salt Lake City"
Well that whole thing was so darn
interesting that | am using 1t. BY golly
had no idea 1t was go big. We take 1t
as a matter OF fact. II seems to be the
one department in Washington with no
press agent. so there may be lots Of
folks that was as dumb as | was on its
hughness. The thing that makes 1t i'm
portant Is the fact that its always
pointed as an example that the Gov