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Show DAILY RECEIPTS OF POSTOFFICE Washington, Feb. 24 The daily receipts re-ceipts of the postoliice department h;:- reached the enormous total of $ ' 127,000, which is more than S00 -i'k i ''i greater i han rho ombined i e -ceipts of the government from all other sources. The figures are set forth in the quarlerh financial statement state-ment of Charles A. Kram, auditor for the department, made public todaj Of the total that our,, nto department during the la three months $642,000 is for the payment of postage, special delivered, registration registra-tion and other branches of the mailing mail-ing business while money orders issued is-sued brought in $1,784,000. So near-y near-y balanced are the receipts ;md expenditures ex-penditures that now the surplus or ! deficit for an entire twelve months ) I rarely amounts io as much as the re- t j ceipts for a single day. I An inteieting nature ol Auditor ' K ruin's report, discloses the fact that up to 18G2 the average person spent l. only 2L cents a year for postage In 1 -"1 th.- average man expended 97 I cents while today the habit of letter wutiug has grown to such an exteut J J tba'. the average expenditure Is $2-60 m I a year. ll |