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D36923-2
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- 1948-12-08 (Creation)
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An unidentified postal worker with a Navy tattoo is sorting the mail at the main U.S. Post Office at 1102 A Street in December of 1948. The bins are already piled high and it is not yet the peak of the holiday season. The Tacoma Post Office expected to increase the number of postal employees from 475 to nearly 1,000 during the busy Christmas season. Typically about 200,000 letters were handled daily but this would increase to about 700,000 letters daily at the peak of the holiday season. By the peak of the holiday mailing season, roughly December 17th, incoming mail would exceed outgoing mail by at least two to one. (T. Times, 12/12/48, p. 1+ -article).
Postal service employees--Tacoma--1940-1950; Correspondence; Letters to Santa Claus; Christmas--Tacoma; Packaging; Shipping--Tacoma--1940-1950; Christmas presents; Postal service--Tacoma--1940-1950; United States Post Office (Tacoma);