Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1911 — City Gets 125,000 Post Cards Daily [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

City Gets 125,000 Post Cards Daily

CHICAGO. —If any one doubts that the friends of Chicagoans do not send them cards from all parts of the world during the vacation Beason, just ask the letter carriers. Chicago’s postoffice Is now receiving 125,000 cards dally, and when the postcard crop Is at Its height, the office will handle 200,000 cards a day. IF all of the postcards that come to Chicago each day at this time of the year from people jaunting throughout the country on vacations were placed end to end, the line would reach a distance of twenty miles. Five hundred poetcards laid on top of each other form a pile one foot high, and so, by careful figuring it is found that the total number of cards coming to Chicago dally will form a

stack 200 feet* high or equal to the height of some of Chicago’s taller One little Innocent postcard often makes the postman walk two or three floors higher than he would go if he were carrying only “legitimate” mall. Frequently the postmen return to the Offices and find that postcards have compelled them to walk one-third farther than the regular mall would have taken them. The Chicago postoffice handles In one day more postcards than any other office in the world 'under on* roof. The vacation period brings onehalf as many cards to the city as does Easter or Christmas time. A downtown novelty dealer declares tfe sells as high as |IOQ worth of postcards a day. Of course, the postoffice has to be just as careful with a little vacation card as with a real letter. But one kind of card is barred, the variety that Is covered with tinsel. Tinsel is poisonous and the clerks are not cothpelled to come in contact with it