Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-12-27
POST REVENUE
REACHES llIlI!| H | TOTAL
INCOME FOR SIX MONTHS MORE
THAN THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS.
ENABLES DEPARTMENT 70 SHOW
SURPLUS FOR FISCAL YEAR Of
ABOUT FovRsMlLL.oNs.

Washington, Dec. 26.-The parcel post
is credited with responsibility for an
increase for the fiscal year 1913 of sos
per cent in the receipts Of the Post Of
flee Department over the preceding year,
according to the report of Alexander NJ.
Dockery, third assistant postmaster gen.
}eral, made public today. The revenues
of the department for the year 1913 in
Guiding sales of stomps Of al kinds, pos
tai cards, none orders and from all
other sources, reached a :oral of ss266 el9,-
525 .65. For the year 912 The tntai re.
venues were $246. 744, O15 .Ss. In lis report
the third assistant postmaster general
says: "The marked increase il revenue
is due to the operation of the parcel post
system, which was snaugurat,al January
q, 1913"
While The revenues If the department
increased s 10 per &C It, ths expenditures
Increased at a. consiI.rably NcWer late.
the increase over the preceding year he
ing only 5.A4 per cent. Total expenditures
of the department o. tho fiscal year 1913
as shown by the report, were 1892, OCT, 5A1.-
ss3 as against s24s. 1872. 9sa.O7 for 1912,
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According to the report, the depart
ment shows "a surplus for the year Of
S4,51O,6 5O,91. but as all accounts have not
yet been audited and all claims etc.
have not been allowed and paid. this in
Dictated surplus win be reduced.
Postage stamp sales are the chief
source OF revenue of the Post Office De.
partment, and, of course, q far larger
number. Of 2-ccnt stamps is sold than of
any other denomination. During the tis-
cal year covered by the report more than
five billion 2-cent stamps in sheets were
sold, in addition to the stamps Of the
same denomination old in coils and in
stamp books. OF the ordinary postage
! stamps Of all denominations, from l cent
to S., and including l0-cent special deliv-
cry and registry stamps, a total of nearly
ten billion stamps were printed and sold.
the exact number being 9,923. 450,6 0
worth, in the aggregate, s17s,4 o4, 226.4o.
Besides the regular postage stamps,
307. 551,936 stamps of all denominations
Of the Panama Pacific commemorative is
sue were sold the stamps being worth
SIS. 597, 1896. A total of 626, 1873. 6GS parcel
post stamps, worth ss30,3S3.S9i.7o shows
how the people Of the United States used
the new system during the y ar.
Many Are Absers.M Minded.
Lots of people in the country are alb
sent-minded and forget to attach the
necessary postage to their letters and
parcels. This is shown by the fact that
more than forty-four million ord nary
postage-due stamps, ealing for nearly a
million and q half dollars in postage
were stuck on envelopes or other pieces
Of mail, the postage to be collected at
the receiving instead of the sending end.
Postage.due stamps for parcel post pack
ages for the year .totaled more than th;r-
teen millions and called for the collection
from the recipient Of the parcels the tidy
little sum of s672, 864.77. I
That the money order business of the
department is in a fairly flourishing con.
dition is shown in the report by the state
ment that in 1918 a total OF 90,656,145
money orders Of all kinds were issued
calling for 1924, $40; O96 80. The money or
.ders sissuedti in 1912 ftotaled 84,5S9, PIP, for
$685., 333377,o0s SO. The averageramount called