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ST. VALENTINE’S MAIL IS HEAVY
Affixing Stamps in the Proper Corner Assists Work at the Post Office
[Welland Tribune, February 1929]
For more than 10 months, Welland postoffice has had in operation a stamping machine attached to which is an electric meter.
During these 10 months a million letters have gone through this machine, not including large size envelopes of letters posted with stamps in other than the right-hand corner.
Postoffice officials explained that the rapidity of movement in the work of stamping letters by the machine was badly hindered at times by the practice on the part of some correspondents of affixing the regular stamps on any place but the proper right-hand corner.
Officials stated that the machine was of exceptional service at such times as Christmas, Easter, St. Valentines’ Day and similar heavy mail delivery periods, and similar heavy mail delivery periods, and the St. Valentine’s Day mail delivery service had been the heaviest known.
Merchants down town bore this last statement out. One firm alone sent out over the Niagara peninsula no less than 43,200 one-cent valentines, more than 10,000 valentine cards, and between 4,000 and 4,500 10 cent-cards, to say nothing of thousands of post cards.
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