New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-09
Report Of the Post,Baster.f;eneral

The Postmaster General reports that on
the .t ult there were 81 lol PostOcein operation.
or 395 u ian year before with Sill post
routes their aggregate length being pa as miles, and
EMPLOYING 500 contractors The annual transporta-
ton of the mails on the routes 50 72s miles at
an annual cost of s393997l being about 40 cents
per mile of these sc 9s5 72s miles of annual Transport
tation IL 0s2 10. mile. required to be performed
upon railroads at cost Of 81 27J520 being about ll2
cents per mile 6353 400 miles in steamboats, at cost
OF s5O5slj being about egh, cents permle ~ oJe ~
miles in coaches at cost Of ST. 1896, being about SIC
cents per mile and % $50 62 miles in modes not spec
ifed, at cost OF s996j0 being abou. 9l0 cents per
mile.
The inland ser7ice when compared with such service
at the close OF the preceding year. rs stated In he last
annual report from dis department shows an increase
OF 1924 miles in the length OF mail routes of57lis0
in the miles of annual transportation and OF sJe,2l' IN
the snnusi cost )t transportation OF such increase u
transportation the railroad service amounts 70 2jlfo5
miles, ncr sascd costOf $3.50 SOL being an increase
ofsbout twen nine pr cent bOthin the service aud in
it, aggregate cot; the steamboat service TO s9S4T
mile increased cost Of sJO}, bein, an increase
OF about sixteen andahalf per cent in service, aud
eleven per cent IN cost; the coach service - 9IS3l|
mcs, M increased cost OF lS7 being IN Increase
of about i've per cent. in service AL eight per cent in
the aggregate cost and in modes Of service not speci led
l3S 60 miles nc increased cost OF sli9O1 being
increase of about seven per cent IN service, ana ten
per cen:. Ia cost.
Compared nththc transportation and It's cost, at the
close OF the sca year ending juno 30 1912 il shows that
the rlrca and steamboat service had increased in the
Ten years l3,Oll9l5 mics, p. an increased cost OF
Sll} 4 beng about - per cent increase in service
Md ia per cert in the coach service s)i
miles n decreased cost of S57l.5 being about ten
per cent nl rcasc in service and thirty three and ons
ird per conf decrease in cost the service ~ modes not
specified 92039la mes at an increased cost Of s)2OJ
being about seventy nnc per cent increase IN service
aud forty per cent in cost
There were in operation on the Sob day of June last
six foreign mail oues OF the etimated yregate length
Of 1920 nile The number OF mles OF annual trans
poraion thereon estimated AZ 90 i0i Tne service on
three Of these routes s under with this part
ment the annual transportation thereon ID cstimate at
2OOJ92 ni!cs, al coet Of siOlO)O being about 81 ~
per mile The service the other three routes is unle
contract with the Navy Department Thc annual trans-
poraton iherec ia estimated &c ijS9A miles, at IN
nual coet tot 81 $1,000 dncuding the additional compel
sati0n tied TO Zoe Collins Line the last session OF
Congrots) being about = y per mile.
To carry the mails tho thmus Of Panama cost
last year $500. or - cents per pound while the
amount received for such transportation did not excel
) cents per pound.
Tic cost OF OCEAN steamer service for several years
thu. sstod: For 1915 il was 500 5O) 1912 Sl7l,7l0;
$50, S72l570i l-5l Sl,03 $50 1882 81, .962jo.
The hole an cunt of posagcs, inland sea and for
oiSD leers and other mailable matter received and
rent by the several lines during the year. was follow
viz:
Nv Coilin.s line New-Yors and Liverpool .S22as67 CT
BY Ncw-io and Bremen line, touching az
souhenPton, England. ..................... 1913 81
BY NewYork and ,yre line touching 1t Cows so8oi %
The grc-s receipts OF the Department for the year
ending June 30 1882, So 995gl % derived from
The following sources viz:
Letter postage including foreign postage and
stamps cold. SG79e %
Postage on newspapers, periodicals. &C.,. 739, 25 So
ors .....'.................. 275o
Receipts on account Of cxce.e OF enioluments
of postInastsrs 3sg7s p
Darnsges collected from falling contrgctors. 52l3 30
Receipts account Of d. I'D letters. 1855 -
Receipts from letter carriers ............. lOf3)j ~
n
1851, heinz such remained Of the old is7ue
and which charged 10 them on that
.......................... $3.50
Msccane receipts 1921 50
From Apr ipnaiion authorized by tw efth
lion Of act OF I'd March, 1917, viz: From I'd
March 1917 70 Seth June, 1852 lot'1J1 n
ZION ofact OF March 1851 ........e....... $685. %
FROM APPROPRIATION for Census mails" au-
I'd NAV. 1850 1900 o.
Total s6925Gi %
FrcIn tbs amount must b. deducted tue
amount pas cble 20 thc British post office,
under the postal convention OF December.
1913, e. rOs estimated from statement Of .
the aiItOr lOl,J5j y
The receipts from postages American and foreign,
for the preceding scsl year. being decrease of about
81 per II the estimated balances accruing 70 the
British Post. Office for each year excluded, for the
purpose Of showing the decrease Of postage
thet decrease will amount to s,f3l ,69o 81 about
22ls per cent This diminutcn in p0stases Is At
tbuablc the reduction in the of postage by tue
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