Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — 5,021,841,056 PIECES OF MAIL. [ARTICLE]

5,021,841,056 PIECES OF MAIL.

A statement prepared at the Post Office Department shows that during the last fiscal year the total number of pieces of letter mail sent in the domestic mails of the United States was 2,407,810,175, of which 2,321,314,563 were paid at letter rates and 86,495,512 were sent on official business. Teere were also 535,917,839 postal cards handled. The number of newspapers and periodicals mailed by others than publishers and news agents, 71,078,777. The total second-class matter handled was 1,434,245,632 pieces; third-class matter, books, pamphlets, etc., 595.134.179 pieces; fourth-class matter, 48,733,181 pieces, making a grand total number of pieces of domestic mail matter handled 5,021.8-11,056.