While on the subject of the Post Office, imagine the load which is placed upon them during the peak weeks, One day last season one of the biggest pools needed 120,000 five-shilling postal orders. The Liverpool Post Office simply had not got that number, and an urgent SES. was despatched to London, Since football pools began, the sales of postal orders have risen enormously. In 1925 the sales of sixpenny orders amounted to less than £4,000,- 000. Ten years later the figure had jumped to £22932525. It was the same with shilling orders. They had risen from £8,170,580 to £35,959,850, and even 15, 6d. postal orders, which were £4,227,110 in 1925, had become £14,314,000 ten years later.
Suppose one of those postal orders had accompanied a coupon of yours which, on checking up last night, you found to be correct, What happens? Nothing, you think, can happen until Monday. You are left in a state of suspense, Don't you believe it, The pool promoter's busiest time is Saturday night. By 7 p.m. or so he has all the results. By 11 or 12 o'clock he knows the names of the winners, Several million of coupons have been checked and rechecked. That is organization, But more is to come, He has agents stationed all over the country. Wherever you, Mr. Smith, may live, even if it be in some remote village, you can be certain that the pool promoter has an agent within 50 miles. Soon after breakfast on Sunday, there will be a knock at the door and the pool promoter's representative will be there to tell you exactly the size of the cheque you will receive.
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