The Dumfries Post Office, 1642-1910. 117 



Mr James Copland Superintendent, Dumfries. 



Mr William Lookup Blackie Overseer, Dumfries. 



Mr James Carson Overseer, Dumfries. 



Mr Walter Dickson Overseer, Dumfries. 



Mr William Dickson Overseer, Hull. 



Appendix C. — Statistics of Work. 



1870-1872. 



" Considered as a central place in the Post Office system, the 

 town has long stood high, and every year of late its importance 

 from this point of view shews a steady increase. The number of 

 letters, cards, books, pamphlets, and newspapers delivered during 

 four weeks in 1870 was 151,293; in the corresponding four weeks 

 of 1871 and 1872 the number respectively was 159,715 and 

 177,370. The weekly number of such articles passing through 

 Dumfries and Galloway Sorting Tender for head Post Ofi&ces 

 has risen from 19,239 in 1870 to 23,549 in 1872. Of telegrams 

 forwarded, received, and transmitted, in 1870 there were 25,987; 

 in 1871, 36,342; and in 1872, 47,356. The money order trans- 

 actions .show a similar advance, these having numbered 20,536 in 

 1870, 22,996 in 1871, and no fewer than 26,249 in 1872. "56 



1904. 



Since 1872 there has been a remarkable development of the 

 postal service, in respect both of the extent and variety of its 

 work. Figures for 1904, obligingly supplied by Mr C. S. 

 Chapman, postmaster of Dumfries, shew that in an average week 

 the number of letters and letter packets posted in the town and 

 district is 66,110, giving an annual total of 3,437,720, without 

 taking into account the large amount of extra correspondence 

 dealt with at the Christmas season ; and the weekly delivery 

 reaches a total of 69,573, or an annual total of 3,617,796. 

 Forwarded letters (i.e., passing between other head offices and 

 re-sorted at Dumfries) number 52,609 weekly; yearly total, 

 2,735,668. In the Galloway and Irish sorting carriages, which 

 are under the control of the Dumfries postmaster and worked by 



56. These statistics were obligingly .supplied by the local post- 

 master, Mr Loudoun, for M'Dowairs " History of Dumfries." 



