From the foregoing statement it appears that
the total issue of money orders and postal notes
for the year mounted to tlG3.2,22935.
The number of letters and packages mailed
during the year for special delivery was 3.436.
970. The special delivery stamps used upon
these letters and packages amounted to $343.
797. The messengers fees paid for their de
livery amounted to $01. 20 '.70. leaving a bal
ance in favor of the government of $.82,487.30.
The report show most gratifying results in
the way of econemies worked out without af
fecting the efficiency of the postal service.
These consist in the abrogation of steamship
subsidy cont .v.ets. re-letting of mail contracts,
and in the cost and amount of supplies used in
the service amounting to !6.!19.047.42.
This report also contains a valuable contri
bution to the history of the Universal Postal
union, an arrangement which amounteo prac
tically to the establishment of one postal sys
tem for the entire civilized world. Special at
tention is directed o this subject at this time,
in view of the fact that the next congress of
the m.'on will meet in Washington in P-97 and
it is hoped that timely action will be taken in
the direction of perfe; ting preparations for
that event.
The postmaster genital renews the sugges
tion made in a previous report that the depart
ment organization be increased to the extent
of creating a direct supervision of all postal
affairs, and in this suggestion I fully concur.
