THE BUSTLE OF CHRISTMAS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1006, 22 December 1910, Page 6

THE BUSTLE OF CHRISTMAS.

A POST OFFICE. DAY. The General Post Office mail-room staff faced a big proposition yesterday, in the shape of a Sydney mail swollen to abnormal "'proportions, as it usually is at" this season of the year. However, Mr. E. C. Gannaway, assistant postmaster, in speaking to a reporter, declared himself perfectly satisfied with the manner in which the burdens of the day had been assaulted by his "staff. "We have got it well in hand," he stated, referring to the mail, "and if all goes well we will be able to say that wg arc quite up to the average so far as handling the work is concerned. I have no doubt it is a little neavier than usual, but 50 additional bags are neither here nor there in this Office._' The' men arc at -work out there in shirt and trousers, and not many dry threads on them, but • they are working cheerfully, and doing the work remarkably well. We always look upon this as a time of double work."

Mr. Garinaway continued: "To-day wc arc handling 90 bags of mails instead of the usual 50. The Wednesday mailfrom Sydney usually brings about fire or six thousand lett-ers; . 'To-day -there are, no doubt, about 10,000. The mail was sorted in good time. All the letters went out by the letter-carriers this afternoon. Papers, of course, ; liavo had to stand aside for letters. There has betn absolutely no delay or anything in tho shape of a block. The correspondence ivas got away as quickly as it was possiblo to do it. Wo have earned our bread and butter to-day," concluded Mr; Gannaway, in a tone" of perfect conviction.