The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-11-12

scant appropriate the work OF the
free delivery system has been eur
Offices made free delivery during the
year. There has been q slight in
crease in the number of carriers.
There has been a settlement of many
over time claims Of carriers during
the year
Rural Free Delivery . Failure.
Mr.. Jones condemns as heartily as
he did last year the experimental free
delivery and the rural free delivery
tried by his predecessor. He esti-
mates the free delivery service for
the next year S12, 327, 6S5. The esti-
mate for supplies at postofice depart
ment is S44O 500. a decrease Of $751;
600 from the present year.
The money order business shows
that $50 Offices were constituted
money order Offices during the year
The amount of orders issued was
SI3S, 1913, $40; amount paid, SI3S. 7z9. 229:
receipts, S1,2I2 ,33S; expenses, $780,
TAI The issue of postal notes was
$l2, 649. O94; postal notes paid, $12, 644,
S44. The postal notes have never
been discontinued bv act of congress
The amount OF international money
orders issued was ~13, 753, Ass: foreign
issued paid, Sc, SOS, 493.
OF the operations Of the dead letter
office. Mr.. Jones says: THE mum Der
OF pieces of original dead mail mat
ter during the year for treatment
was 7,1Ol. O44, a decrease of 20, 9s3
pieces from the preceding year, in
stead of an annual increase Of this
class of matter, which in 1898
amounted to 349, SAL
Increased Efficiency OF the Department.
1t is gratifying to note the amount
of work done and the increased de-
livery of mail matter from this Office
during the past fiscal year. The
number of parcels and letters deliv-
cred was 2,975. OF, a gain of 267, 24O
pieces, the highest percentage. in de-
livery of mail matter at the dead let
ter Office, and this has been accom-
plished without any increase in the
clerical force OF the letters and
parcels opened and recorded
%, Isl contained money amounting to
$3s 255; 20 O2O contained drafts, money
orders. etc. with a face value of
81. O56, 36S- 4. ITO contained postal notes,
value s., sos; 40, PA contained paid
notes, receipts, legal and other papers
of a miscellaneous character; 35, O41
contained photographs, ISL SOS con-
tanned postage stamps, 94,4 con-
tanned articles of merchandise, books,
etc. ]. 600 contained manuscripts, and
5.915. 645 were without separate in
closures and were returned to the
WElL1ES, WnCA DEdCblCdDlEs OLAGEW1SG
destroyed without record
There were restored to the owners
1s. los letters containing S2S. or; 27 90
containing drafts, notes, money or
ders etc., with face value OF 1855. 979;
A, O33 postal note letters. value s., SOC;
SO. ORG conta ming miscellaneous pa
pers; SO, 491 containing merchandise,
books. etc; p, 1877 containing photo
graphs, IA, 40 containing postage
stamps, 597 containing manuscript
and /, ss5. SIG without separate inclos-
ures of value, the remainder being
either not returnable or in process of
restoration
There were received at the dead
letter office BAL, 779 pieces Of mail
from foreign countries and returned
to foreign countries 642. OIL
Mr. Jones says that so vigorously
have the provisions of the act Of con-
gress been enforced to prevent the
mails from being used for fran lulent
purposes that green goods men do
not undertake to receive replies
through the mails, but use the tele-
graph entirely. There are now re-
corded in the departing Mt 2,611 ficti-
tiOus names and addresses adopted
by these green goods swindlers. not
one of whom is rece living letters by
mail which are addressed to the
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