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Show That Postal Deficit. Washington. Postmastr Oeneral Meyer announced on Thursday that tho postal deficit for the fiscal year nded Juno :io, 1U0S, amounted to Slii,-'10,279. Slii,-'10,279. The receipts woro $191,478, :i3. being S7,S0.r.,C.r7 greater than tho previous year, nnd the expenditures 208.:i51,S80. Tho deficit Is the largest in the history of the postolllco depart-i.'ont. depart-i.'ont. An analysis or the llguros hows thnt S!),891.:i21 represents tho idvnnce lu the rate or compensation authorized by congress for employes of the railway mall service, rural delivery de-livery service, city delivery service, nd assistant postmasters and clerks u jMistofllccH. The normal increase n the revenue for several years wns ibout ! per cent, and in 1908, 4.29 per cent, tho falling off lu the rate of I'.rowtb being duo to tho financial depression. |