This year, the postings recorded through the stamping machines at Watford between December 18 to 24 for the first time exceeded 1,000,000 - an increase of more than 7 per cent compared with the corresponding period last year.

Christmas Day deliveries were the heaviest for 20 years.

[From the Watford Observer of December 29, 1950]

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