Show UNCLE SAMS saws MAIL one nc of the arnot interesting portions in etc president arthur s message 11 is the tile exhibit of the postal service V of tile it i highly flattering to the business development and nd intellectual of tile country as AT well ell as a rv ay iy indication of the steadily increasing c r ca sit intimacy and frequency of our connections with foreign na liona in tile following wo we pre clit a few of the ewt filI figure which speak peak with unmistakable pla illness annc in nc it will be remembered that discarding carding cent cents tile expenditures were revenue SO 36 excess of c expenses add for bad debts I and the balance against just the department is this deficit which is 63 per percent cent of thOaD the amount lount expended must be paid out of the general treasury so the postal department was not self sustaining for the last fiscal year but gen james jameso who has given tile world tho best posto mcc adnew york promises promis cs to elevate the national postal service on oil a self sus stis ta t i n basis ays yys net mt reductions have been made in the star route and steamboat steam Loat service from july to oct 31 1881 of this would seem to reduce the deficit for the present year to the circulation of stamps is exhibited in the following table I value lalue ordinary postage stamps newspapers and periodical stamps special cial stamps for postage poi due postal cards stamped ped envelopes plain News newspaper wrappers official stamps official stamped envelopes the whole number of stamps and envelopes of all kinds was 1504 H 1542 tile fees from front registered letters and packages were or 19 19 per cent above those of the preceding year the postage on newspapers and periodicals mailed iosub to subscribers bers at cents per pound was just under and of this aggregate ate the fifteen principal cities of ortho the union paid 71 per cent the weight of this class of mail matter awas is was tons for the year nt kw deiv york city alone furni furnished ebed one fourth of newspaper mail matter one letter of every mailed went to the dead letter office there were on oil november 1881 money order offices an increase of since july 1880 forthe for the last fiscal year there were issued ordera orders covering an increase of 2950 over the preceding year or per cent they averaged 1371 each the fees t of this department L I elated I expense expenses za net at itous lie fore foreign ivil nione money y order business failers orders issued 19 z ed in the united sta states aes during the year is reported as follows num number ber amount british 44 german 84 canadian italian french rr cuch the be gross number of orders domestic e an and foreign was gron gross a amount aunt gro gross ss receipts 1070 the report s recommends a of fees on orders not above from 10 to cents and arid that the limit of any one order be raised from 56 50 what it now is is to if this tion is carried out it will greatly enlarge probably double the business ness pythis of aliis department in a year or two the tile length of the 1194 postal railway routes in operation on june soth was miles the star routes measuring miles miler were reduced during the year miles mile s the total cost of transportation by all routes during the year was of thia this the railway routes rote absorbed abed or over ZO 50 per ce cent nt the total mileage of all routes is total railto railway ay route mileage or r but agi 61 percent per cent alic rate per mile ini leis is cents by ra raili il ay 1122 s I the allio of postage 11 ta collected oil foreign mail matter of all kiezis hiring during the year was the foreign letters exchanged were packages of newspapers and ether printed matter there 2915 new post offices c in the tile year car and 1415 discontinued making a net increase of 1500 the whole liti niber of existing june 30 1881 was of these ident ai a point ti by and mith with tile advice and consent of the senate 1863 and the postmaster general what a comparatively small pio portion of arbitrary removals is made in thid this department of t alie lie government is seen in the list of appointments point ments for the year which only numbers i for all causes |