Show RURAL MAIL DELIVERY I Successful Result of a Typical Experiment pertinent t I A report submitted recently to the Postofllcc department by the superintendent superin-tendent of free delivery of the experiment experi-ment of rural free delivery In Carroll county Md establishes the value of the new plan not only for Carroll county but the entire country Inasmuch Inas-much as the Maryland community was selected as peculiarly typical of the average dilllcultlcs to be expected everywhere from a topographical standpoint as well as from tho opposition oppo-sition sure to be excited by deposed postmasters There were sixtythree of these latter and they joined with the discharged employees of the thirty I three discontinued star routes in tryIng try-Ing to prejudice the farmers against the now system They were successful to an extent for a time but the continued Improvement I In the service furniyhad by the four postal wagons and the thir tynine rural lettercarriers and particularly par-ticularly the uninterrupted service during dur-ing the two days blizzard In March convinced the farmers of the benefits of the system They realized the great convenience of being able to mall let ter1 at their own doors purchase postage post-age stamps or money orders or secure the advantage of registry service without with-out driving miles to town The experiment experi-ment covered 35G s square miles In Carroll I Car-roll county and thirtytwo square miles In adjoining counties In this territory I I atC rr9 families representing 19336 patrons and the average distance they had to travel for thcli mall was 176 yards as compared with the former average of 20S miles round trip to the nearest country postolTlce ThIs rural free delivery has been In operation In Carroll county for three months onethird of wlflch was fruitless fruit-less of telling results because of tho opposition encountered Yet In that quarter the service was almost self sustaining Offsetting the cost oftho service by tho saving effected In the discontinuance of the star routes and the fourthclass ofllccs and by tho In 1 crease of revenues resulting from the service the not cost was only 230 The I ofllclalB have the best of reasons for expecting a snug profit to the Government Govern-ment at the close of the first year to I I arise from the increased postal revenue In tho county For the first quarter that revenue Increase was 235 per cent a surprising advance considering that I I for tho last five years the average annual an-nual Increase In the aggregate revenues of the 750 free delivery postolllces producing I pro-ducing 70 per cent of all postal revenues reve-nues Is only a fraction over 8 per cent These figures leave no room for argument argu-ment the superintendent says They force the conclusion that rural free delivery de-livery as a system of the postal service ser-vice will effect phenomenal Increases In the postal revenues lot the future New York Post |