The total number of valentines which passed through the office, in addition to the ordinary correspondence, was 302,222, as against 280,000 last year and 300,000 in 1879.
A vast number of valentines were deposited in the Head Office, Brown-street, on Saturday afternoon, and the officials were enabled to sort and clear away this instalment before the heavier flood began to pour in on Sunday.
A very large number of boxes containing valentines were posted this year, the affection for substantial tokens of regard, or otherwise, being apparently on the increase.
To meet the wants of suburban residents, three extra collections were made on Sunday from the pillar boxes, and two others on Monday, the latter being mainly intended for the collection of "return" valentines.
As for Elizabeth Warren, no amount of valentines has wooed her away from her position on not running (though as our Lexington recently noted, her denials are always in the present tense).There was an air of inevitability about Mrs Clinton early on in the 2008 race, too.
Maturesinglesonly.com says more than 7m people aged 40 and older have sought their help since 2002, while match.com reckons about 30% of its American users are aged over 50.That so many ageing Americans are finding new love may have surprised the young Beatles, who wondered whether it was possible to receive valentines at age 64.
Formal messages, or valentines, appeared in the 1500s, and by the late 1700s commercially printed cards were being used.
Many schoolchildren exchange valentines with one another on this day.
Valentines commonly depict Cupid, the Roman god of love, along with hearts, traditionally the seat of emotion.
The first commercial valentines in the United States were printed in the mid-1800s.
He supported himself by illustrating comic valentines and calisthenics books and by drawing for Vanity Fair.
