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Show RURAL PARCELS POST TO WIPE OUT DEFICIT WASHINGTON". April 19. The po3t-maBter po3t-maBter gonoral le calling the attention of Congress to the fact that the establishment estab-lishment of a special local parcel post on rural routes would wipe out tho postal deficit, says a statement given out at the postoffico department today, "and wnild tond to make the rural free delivery de-livery eelf-sustatnlnp, besides "beinp a boon to the farmers and tho retail county coun-ty merchant. There aro now in operation opera-tion 39.03S rural routes serving a population popula-tion of 15.000.000 people nnd should an average- of five 11 -pound packages be carried car-ried on each trip through the year it is estimated that 15.000,000 would be realizod and the net return to tho government would be more than sufficient to equal the deficit." A statement Issued by tho postmaster general clvinp the postal receipts for March, 130 1, shows a decrease of $2G0 -057, or 3-11 per cent, at the fifty largest postofflccs. Postal receipt? at fifty of the principal princi-pal postofflccs duriiiK the nvh months preceding- ainrch last, as compared with th corresponding months a vear ago are October. 3.S0 per cent Increase; Novpm-bcr Novpm-bcr .1 per cont decrease; "December. 6.14 per cent Increase; .Tanuarv, 1.5 ner cnt decrease; Fobruary. 4.66 per cent in-oreaso. |