OF THE

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT

FOR THE.

FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1901.

REPORT OF THE

POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

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DOCUMENTS
DEPT.

CONTENTS.

REPORT OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL

Introduction, 11; revenues and expenditures, 11; estimates, 12; abuses of second-class mat-

ter, 12: cost of handling, 13: true public policy, 14; intent of the law, 14; induce-

ments for evasion, 15; growth of second-class matter, 17: actual loss, 17; no law for

return copies, 18; books as periodicals, 20; periodicals for advertising and free circu-

lation, 21; some examples, 22; Department executes the law, 23; interest of legiti-

mate periodicals, 24; rural free delivery, 25; advantages of the policy, 25; increase

of revenue, 26; making the service permanent, 27; application of civil-service rules,

28; Cuba, 29; Philippine Islands, 29; ocean mail service, 29; pneumatic-tube service,

30; parcels post, 30; money-order transactions, 31; free-delivery system, 31; mail-

transportation service, 31; star service, 32; service in Alaska, 32; automobile tests,

33; railroad transportation, 33; electric-car service, 33; Railway Mail Service, 33;

postal revenue, 34; expenditures in detail, 34; registry system, 35; losses of registered

mail, 35; losses of ordinary mail, 35; suppression of fraud, 35; details of administra-

tion, 37; legislation needed, 39.

REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

Law opinions, 43; postmasters' claims, 44; compromises, rewards, and pardons, 44; fraud

orders, 44; bond-investment schemes, 45; force of the office, 47; editing and publish-

ing opinions, 48.

APPENDIX.-List of claims on account of loss by fire, burglary, etc...

REPORT OF THE TOPOGRAPHER OF THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT..

REPORT OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL...

Classification of the rural-delivery service, 82; distribution and dispatch of mails, 84; tem-

porary force, 85.

Division of salaries and allowances, 86; adjustment of salaries of postmasters at Presidential

post-offices, 86; statement showing number of Presidential post-offices, by classes, 87;

summary of adjustments of salaries of postmasters at Presidential offices, 87; table

showing result of annual readjustment of postmasters' salaries for each year since

1892, 88; statement showing number of Presidential post-offices in cach State and

aggregate receipts for four quarters ended March 31, 1901, 89; statement showing

number of Presidential post-offices in each State and aggregate salaries of post-

masters on July 1, 1901, 90; table illustrating growth of postal service during last

seven years, 90; estimates for postmasters' salaries, 91; total expenditures on

account of the military postal service, 91; reclassification of clerks, 92; clerks in

post-offices, 93; allowances for clerks in post-offices of first and second classes and

stations and substations connected therewith, 94; providing for Presidential post-

offices, 94; rent, fuel, and light for first, second, and third class post-offices, 95; leases

for post-offices, 95; postál stations, 95; clerk hire and separating mails at third and

fourth class offices, 95; statement of transactions in separating clerk hire, 96; tem-

porary clerk hire, 96; substitutes for clerks on vacations, 96; miscellaneous and inci-

dental items, 96; canceling machines, 97; assistant superintendents, salary and

allowance division, 97; recapitulation of estimates, 98.

Free delivery system, 98; new free-delivery offices, 99; roster of free-delivery offices, 100;

separations from the service, 100; shirt waists for letter carriers, 101; shifting popu-

lation affects expenditures, 102; annual estimates, 102; estimates for year 1902-3, 103;

reorganization of the executive staff, 103; supervisors of carriers, 104; expiration of

forty-eight hour law, 105; Detroit marine postal service, 107; night routing of mails,

107; superannuated carriers, 108; rural free delivery, 109; percentage of establishment

of rural free delivery in different States, 110; some difficulties of administration, 110;

antagonisms encountered, 110; rivalries as to territory, 111; county service, 112;

postal stations, 411; division organization, 114; applications pending, 114; supervision

of the service, 116; supervisors' division organized, 117; frequency of inspection, 118;

carriers' schedules, 118; rural letter carriers, 119; personnel of the force, 119; pro-

posed leave of absence with pay, 120; increased pay of carriers, 120; protection of

rural boxes, 121; box question, 121; security, 122; size and shape, 122; accessibility,

122; complaints do not proceed from beneficiaries, 123; necessity of good roads, 124;

constant effort of Department in behalf of good roads, 126; rural free delivery car-

ries other postal facilities, 128; rural free delivery and weather forecasts, 130; statis-

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