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...stamps (29,800) were speedily sold. Letters from the facetious, protests from puritans flooded the Spanish Postoffice, the International Postal Union. Plaints ranged from statements that what is art in Latin countries is obscenity in the Nordic north, to threats of official proceedings against the Spanish Government for sending obscene matter through the mails. To the postal union wrote a Swiss zealot...
Because President Hoover was troubled by the Post Office Department's annual deficit, which must be met out of general taxation, Postmaster General Brown began last year a survey of the postal business to find ways & means of increasing postal revenue (TIME, Dec. 9). Last week "General" Brown concluded that only by upping the first class postage rate from 2¢ per oz. to 2½¢ could his department be put on a paying basis. Not since 1919 when the 3¢ war rate was abolished have U. S. citizens paid more than 2¢ per letter. The Postmaster General prepared to recommend...
Third Assistant Postmaster General Frederic A. Tilton, able statistician and business surveyor, explained that last year's postal deficit was $85,000,000, of which $35,000,000 was for the free han- dling of governmental mail (including matter franked by Congress), ocean and air subsidies. A ½¢ increase in the first-class rate, said he, would wipe out the "real deficit" of $50,000,000 and show a $10,000,000 profit. Declared Postman Tilton: "We have canvassed the whole situation and the revenue is not in the other classes.* In other classes there is competition. The railroads...
That Postmaster General Brown was not ready to accept any old expedient to increase postal revenue became clear last week when he turned down a proposition from direct-mail advertisers who wanted him to handle their circulars without putting them to the expense of addressing. They wanted to dump into any post office great bundles of circulars for which they would pay the usual rates. Each letter carrier would have been given a bundle with orders to leave one circular at each stop on his route. Overburdened postmen would have stooped even lower under this enormous new load. Declared Postmaster...
Democrat Byrns, afire with political zeal, added to the agreed total of 1931 appropriations $51,000,000 for future payment of War claims, and $199,310,597.12 appropriated in the first or special session of this Congress for farm relief and back postal pay to railroads, arriving at a total of $5,124,239,830.28. This sum, he argued, exceeded last year's appropriations by $459,003,062.24. He made much of the fact that White House appropriations under President Hoover had jumped $91,840 from the $43 7, 1 80 President Coolidge got along with. Said he : "Even...