TRANSACTIONS OF THE NEW-YORK POST OFFICE, FOR THE YEAR 1879. THE following statement exhibits the transactions of the NewYork Post Office for the year 1879. Prepared expressly for the Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce, by direction of Hon. THOMAS L. JAMES, Postmaster : Number of reports of missing mail matter made to Chief Special Agent for further investigation,.. Correspondence of office, letter tracers, notifications, &c. Unclaimed Domestic Letters, including "Drops," sent to Dead Letter Office,. 66.323 $1,048,136 18 44.831 $717.298 74 $651,430 36 $1,547,260 80 18.345 6.257 56,512 277.527 27.886 66 66 Domestic Postal Cards, wholly written, 69.688 Unmailable Postal Cards, Domestic Letters held for Postage, and Unclaimed Hotel Letters, Unpaid and Short Paid Letters forwarded by Postmaster, at his own cost.. Letters forwarded to correct address upon information received from senders in response to notification from this office, Letters imperfectly addressed, correct address supplied by this Department and forwarded to destination, Mis-directed Letters sent to Dead Letter Office, Domestic,. Foreign... Letters entirely unaddressed sent to Dead Letter Office,. Dead Letter Office, (writer not found.). 1.270 2.812 2.568 2,184 384 17,375 4.926 6.838 Foreign Packages, held for various causes, forwarded to destination sent to Dead Letter Office, (senders unknown,). 9.270 2.701 3.938 Newspapers 66 53.232 66 66 66 returned to senders, 6.572 67.173 1,260 Excess of weight and measure Packages returned to senders upon notification,. sent to Dead Letter Office, (senders 66 unknown,). Unmailable Packages, &c., (securely packed in wooden box to prevent injury to other mail matter,) sent to Dead Letter Office, 168 1,770 1.134 Packages and articles received without wrapper or address, sent to Dead Letter 2,350 Foreign Communications and Jewelry Letters held as unmailable, sent to Dead 758 Letters to fictitious addresses sent to Dead Letter Office,.. 4,782 AVERAGE QUANTITIES OF MAIL MATTER DISPOSED OF In One Day During the Year 1879. Pouches despatched to 242 Post Offices and 104 Routes at an average weight of 7 lbs. each,. NEWSPAPER MAIL-2D AND 3D CLASS MATTER. Sacks of Matter received for distribution at an average weight of 70 lbs. each, Sacks of Mail despatched to 361 Post Offices and 242 Routes at an average of 24 lbs. each,.. Total weight of Mail Matter and Sacks and Pouches despatched,.. 71,775 TRANSACTIONS OF THE NEW-YORK CLEARING HOUSE. Prepared by Mr. WILLIAM A. CAMP, Manager. THE New-York Clearing House has been in operation twenty-six and a quarter years. Its aggregate transactions during that period, ending December 31, 1879, amount to $530,441,432,896 90. It was organized on the 11th of October, 1853, and at the present time consists of fifty-seven banks and the Assistant Treasurer of U.S. The aggregate yearly transactions since its organization to January 1st, 1880, are as follows: CLEARING HOUSE TRANSACTIONS FROM OCTOBER 11TH, 1853, TO JANUARY 1ST, 1880. The average currency exchanges per day during the years 1878 and 1879, were as follows: Statement showing the Clearing House Transactions for each month, from January 1st to December 31st, 1879, with the Loans, Specie, Legal Tenders and Liabilities of the Associated Banks, and the Per Centage of Specie and Legal Tenders to Net Liabilities. |