Show OUR NATIONAL MAIL SERVICE the enormous of mail matter handled the annual report of third assistant postmaster general shows that the total cost of the postal service for the last fiscal year inclusive of amount earned by the subsidized pacific railroad companies for gaail transportation was the postal and money order receipts amounted to leaving a deficiency of this deficiency is owing mainly it is said to the great extension of free delivery service under a modification of the old law and the increase of the railway mail transportation the special delivery system has grown considerably sider ably since the report of the previous year so has the registry business the total number of pieces of registered matter transmitted during the boar was of special delivery matter the number of pieces transmitted was the total number of articles of the various of stamped pape remitted was representing statistics are given showing that in the che apnea of postage the number of post offices extent of mail routes miles of service performed postal revenue and postal expenditure and number of letters and other pieces of mail matter transmitted in the mails the united states is now conspicuously ahead of every other nation in the world the statistics of letters etc transmuted transmit ed during the year which are the first accurate statistics of the character ever published by the department are as follows letters mailed postal cards mailed newspapers and periodicals mailed pieces of third and fourth class matter total the number of pieces mailed per capita upon tha basis of population shown bythe last census is sev enty oae the third assistant makes among others the following recommendations ions that in come of the larger cites the pneumatic tube or borne equivalent underground system of mails be adopted that the present contract for letter sheet envelopes enve lopas be resided that all postage stamps stamped envelopes and other stamped issued by the department be manufactured by the bureau of engraving and printing that as a substitute for the franking privilege members of congress an annual allowance of abne for the purchase of postage stamps with which to pay postage on speeches and other mail and that if the rato f postage on letters be produced 0 o oae cent aa has already been proposed in congress there bo only two classes of mail matter recognized recognised js amely letters and all other matter now comprehended in the third and fourth classes postage on which shall ba uniform at one cent for every two outages out aces and newspapers and periodicals at the rato now fixed one cent a pound |