Show POSTAL RETURN FOR 32 LOWER WASHINGTON Oct 2 26 F The P The postoffice department has has' reported td W Chairman Mead of the house postal postal postal pos pos- tal committee that although receipts from 50 cities tor lor the three months ended in September were less than last year they indicate the higher postal rates have actually brought In m additional revenue over what mI might ht have been raised otherwise Harold N. N Graves executive as assistant assistant assistant as- as to the postmaster general in ina a letter to Mead reported that re receipts receipts re- re I from SO 50 selected offices for forthe forthe forthe the September quarter 1932 were 73 as compared with ith in the similar p period of 1931 and In 1930 He said the receipts were more than than- could have been ex expected expected ex- ex but for the new postage rates because it will be noted that in inthe the years 1930 and 1931 the receipts for forthe forthe forthe the September quarter averaged 1129 per cent less than in the preceding June quarter Had this ratio of reduction continued continued con con- in 1932 and 1932 and it presumably would have done so but for the in increases increases increases in- in creases in rates Graves added the receipts for the September quarter of 1932 would have bave totaled but 61 S Graves estimated on the basis of the ratio between the Uie receipts for the 50 cities es and the total in 1931 that the additional revenue from all offices resulting from the increased postage rates will approximate for forthe forthe I the September quarter the lightest quarter of the year |