Show POSTAL DEFICIT AMOUNTS TO Washington Dec 26 Confronted with a n deficit of oC 70 the present administration of tho the depart department ment began Its operations This was the largest deficit In the history of oC the thee postal service So long as the In the time department aggregated only a afew afew few millions of or dollars annually annual little attention was paid to It but when In the tho last few years It leaped to up upward upward ward vard of and rind finally In 1909 exceeded ordinary business prudence suggested that the causes be bed definitely d located These are aio statements In the time annual report of or Frank H Hitchcock made public today Con Cont coming t the tha results of it r Inquiries Inquires Into the tho deficit the 1 says sa Recent Investigations have hae shown that tho the two great sources of or loss to the postal revenues are mall matter and rural r r 1 delivery The loss on mall mail has been bean Increasing for many er until It now flOW amounts to The loss lo s from rural delivery dellery a ser service service service vice begun hardly a dozen years earl ago a o and of unprecedented growth reaches as high as In these two Items alone nione the postal service now noVo suffers an nn annual loss of o more than the entire national deficit of ot the last fiscal year ear |