City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . THE FREE PRESS Street. ing the matter handled to have increasedto 1,637,989 letters and 874,505 were mailed during 1898, 3,194,816letters, 654,100 post cards, 1,288,352 news-papers, and 33,565 parcels (of which 412were foreign), the value of the latter being$101,914. Each one of these items (the year closing in March)showed an in-crease in 1899,the figures forthe year being :Letters, 3,335,-500 ; post cards,665,490; news-papers,l,740,960;parcels, 40,612,728 of these be-ing foreign andth
City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . THE FREE PRESS Street. ing the matter handled to have increasedto 1,637,989 letters and 874,505 were mailed during 1898, 3,194,816letters, 654,100 post cards, 1,288,352 news-papers, and 33,565 parcels (of which 412were foreign), the value of the latter being$101,914. Each one of these items (the year closing in March)showed an in-crease in 1899,the figures forthe year being :Letters, 3,335,-500 ; post cards,665,490; news-papers,l,740,960;parcels, 40,612,728 of these be-ing foreign andthe value $106,-428. The money-order branch ofthe London PostOffice, as mightnaturally be ex-pected in suchTHE LATB josiAH BLACKBURN. g, commercial Free the present year. In the early 60s the reve-nue of the post office ran about $12,000 perannum. From that time on there weregradual increases. For the period 1876-86the average annual revenue was $35,000,ranging from $28,000 to $44,000 in roundnumbers. In 1887 the revenue reached $46,-000, and $47,000 the following year. Since thatperiod the an-nual revenue hasbeen, omittingthe odd cents 1889, $51,5 00 1890, $51,700 1891, $54,38 718 92, $56,203 1893, $58,264 1894, $58,910the return for1895 showing inthe neighbor-hood of $60, the deliverydepartment in1897 there werehandled 1,573,827letters and 831,-046 newspapers,the succeedingyear (1898) show-
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