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D36923-5
Date(s)
- 1948-12-08 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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In this photograph from December 1948, John Owens lifts a sack of mail over his head and adds it to the growing stack of pre-sorted mail that was ready to be delivered.The Tacoma Post Office expected to be sending out over 700,000 letters a day by December 25th, and to receive twice that number. The Post Offices throughout the country were going through their busiest time of the year. Interior view of the U. S. Post Office's parcel post station located at 1102 Pacific Avenue. (T. Times, 12/12/48, p. 1).
Postal service employees--Tacoma; Correspondence; Letters to Santa Claus; Christmas--Tacoma; Packaging; Shipping--Tacoma; Christmas presents; Postal service--Tacoma; United States Post Office (Tacoma);