Annual Reports Of The Post Office Department For The Fiscal Year Ended June 30 1900

Excerpt from Annual Reports of the Post-Office Department, for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1900: Report of the Postmaster-General, Miscellaneous Reports Transactions for the fiscal year, 168; general receipts. 168; general expenditures, 168; gross receipts and disbursements, 169; net earnings, incidental expenses, 170; assets and liabilities, 171; assets - resources, 171; liabilities - obligations, 171; comparison of business during last two years, 171; Operations in detail, 172; offices in operation, established, discontinued, etc., 173; account with subtreasuries at New York and Chicago, 173; war tax on domestic orders, 174; transfers, 175; reserves, 175; bills of exchange, 176; drafts on New York, 177; duplicate money orders, 177; improper pay ment of money orders, 178; losses from bad debts and casualties, 178; uncollected judgments, pending suits, 179; aggregate transactions - unclaimed orders and postal notes, 180; deposit of funds corresponding with amounts of unclaimed orders, 180; unclaimed money orders, 181; unclaimed postal notes, 181; international business, 181; repayment of international orders, 182; duplicate international orders, 182; Mex ico and Russia, 183; pending conventions, 183; extension of intermediary service, 183; South African business suspended, 183; Paris Exposition, 183; new exchange office for Japan, 183; business with the new possessions and Cuba, 183; Cuba, 183; Hawaii, 184; Porto Rico, 184; the Philippines, 184; China, 185; transfer of funds to New York, 185; revenue - is the system profitable, 185; reduction of fees recommended, 187; improved service, 187 new form, 187; night service, 187; orders to be issued but not paid at stations, 187 labor-saving machines, 188. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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