Copper Stream
Thousands of Pennies RECORD CHRISTMAS MAIL The automatic stamp-selling machines at the Auckland Post Office rattled busily all Monday and Tuesday. During those two days 7,200 pennies were taken in the machines, which were filled almost as soon as they were emptied. The English mail which left on Tuesday by the Aorangi was a record. Letters and parcels tumbled into the reception boxes in a continual stream; every train from the South carried a consignment ot oversea mail, and the officials worked strenuously to get the parcels and bags on to the steamer. A total of 1,324 bags of mail went on the Aorangi. This consisted of 1,248 bags of mail and 76 bags of parcels. Four hundred and fourteen of the bags went from Auckland, the remainder from ocher parts of the Dominion. Last year’s total consisted of 1,222 bags of mail and 54 bags of parcels, a record which was broken on Tuesday'. The mail which left on the Aorangi will arrive in England a few’ days before Christmas.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 518, 22 November 1928, Page 7
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173Copper Stream Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 518, 22 November 1928, Page 7
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