Show Abolish Franking 11 r I H Hg y ste from printed buncombe s nt out 4 postage under government franks costs the United United- States a tremendous annual annuals s 19 7 th be printed and sed than envelopes and andor I a or fr free govern governmental postage The The of ih fh ad wrappers alone alon I be e a about o t J of copies of con congressional ress o l departmental reports ts and bulletins not so much as looked at by tJ the e public tW tta rec receives i es them them Uncle Sams Sam's ae padded wIth of n e that at ath h hent Vent a. a single interest in th gf fin finely ly pi ted stuff that is sent them rin declaring that franking privileges ought tobe abolished the Los Angeles Times figures fig fig- ures it this way If all the franked matter p ra postage at regular rates the revenue go a long way wiping out the t t l deficit Considering bulk of mu much h 01 ot the franked matter consisting of reports t at in more than one sense thick b bOund nd volumes and the like 5 cents is i s- s a low estimate of the average postage ich if paid would be required on each s ece At S 5 cents the gross return Old be S 1 useless governmental and bulletins sn uld be abolished The best way to help this extravagance would be to d daf af Y with franking privileges and require con g gr t departments to o stamp their mail I h hd d to be paid out of regular f b budgets dg ts reckless mailing would be curbed Piper and printing bills could be slashed to a extent The saving would mount into millions in a little time Its It's poor business busi busi- n ness ss management and bookkeeping in the thefiL fiL place to require the postoffice depart depart- to bear the losses occasioned by frank i but privileges but the best result of abolish abolish- franking would be to discourage a source ot w s e. f I r t. t |