. Burpee's farm annual 1894. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. A GLANCE INSIDE A GREAT SEED HOUSE. matter. Last Monday the morniug delivery alone contained 4870 letters and 572 postal cards, a total of 5442 pieces. The afternoon deliveries added greatly to this figure, and the record for the day v/as 6011 letters and 702 postal cards, an enormous grand total of 6713 pieces of mail matter comiug into one estab- lishment inside of ten hours. To .show that the great bulk of this mail is boua
. Burpee's farm annual 1894. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. A GLANCE INSIDE A GREAT SEED HOUSE. matter. Last Monday the morniug delivery alone contained 4870 letters and 572 postal cards, a total of 5442 pieces. The afternoon deliveries added greatly to this figure, and the record for the day v/as 6011 letters and 702 postal cards, an enormous grand total of 6713 pieces of mail matter comiug into one estab- lishment inside of ten hours. To .show that the great bulk of this mail is boua-fide busi- ness correspondence, it may be stated that of the 6011 letters of that day, 5272 of them con-. IN THE FLOWER-SEED DEPARTMENT. tained orders for seeds or other stock, and besides the vast amount of cash and checks inclosed there were 1814 money orders and postal notes. A WONDERFUL SET OF BOOKS. As fast as the orders can be gotten out of the envelopes and marked they are arranged in piles, and carried i'rom time to time to the booking department. Here one of the most wonderful and unique sets of books in the city is kept. There are books for every State and Territory in the United States, with divisions for every post oflice in each State arranged alphabetically, and also books fur all foreign countries. As the orders come from the mail room they are numbered consecutively, dated, and , and the total amount ol' the orders listed mnst agree with the amount of orders turned over to the head of the department, in order that no errors may occur. The books contain records for four years, so that it can be determined what dealings, if any, the .sender of each order has previously had with the firm. When the book- ing is completed the ordens, with their accompauj'iugaddress tags, go up stairs to the filling depart- ments. WHERE ORDERS ARE FILLED. The mail-order department, which occujiies the entire second floor of the big building, is a place of great interest, and e
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