Having just had a card from Smithers, BC take two weeks to get here, I wasn’t feeling to happy with the Post Office, but the old Postie in me reacted with indignation to this article from 1917. Business had quadrupled but the number of staff remained the same. I was also surprised at the quantity of mail coming in this district at that time. 700 sacks of mail a month is a lot; that’s over 23 a day, plus 50 registered letters a day, for the 21 offices in the area that Grande Prairie distributed the mail to.
Researched & written by Kathryn Auger
