Sugar House Bulletin | 1943-10-15 | Page 1 | Deficit of Post Office is Smallest for 24 Years

V Deficit of Post Office Is Smallest for 24 Years WASHINGTON. The post office department closed the 1943 fiscal year (June 30) with a deficit of what it said was $3,543,122, the smallest in 24 years. The 1942 deficit amounted to $11,-825,185, $11,-825,185, which had been the smallest since 1919. Revenues in the 1943 fiscal year totaled $961,059,890, an increase of $101,242,199 over 1942. The increase almost equaled the entire revenues for 1900. Expenditures amounted to $964,602,812, an increase of $92,960,-135. $92,960,-135. Salaries and transportation accounted ac-counted for 77 and 18.8 per cent, respectively, of the year's expenditures.