Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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REGISTERED MAIL...
...this loss some items of unassignable revenue, the actual loss is about $40,000,000 a year, according to this calculation. The obvious thing to do, under such circumstances, is to boost the rates on services which show large losses?wipe out the deficits on second and third class mail and on registered matter. Then not only would the deficit be made up, but also nearly enough revenue would be provided to make possible the proposed pay increase...
Second class mail, which is the big loser ($74,000,000), consists of newspapers and magazines. On the face of it, this mail is paid for at ridiculously low rates. It constitutes by weight nearly 25% of the matter handled and furnishes only a little more than 5% of the revenue received. It is a part of public policy, however, to grant specially low rates as a subsidy to the press to aid in the dissemination of truth and journalism and all the other benefits of the printed word...
...Senator Sterling's request, Postmaster General New submitted a proposal for increasing postal rates. His proposal was designed to take only about $10,000,000 from the grumbling publishers, collecting about $66,000,000 additional from the mail-using public as a whole. Publishers at once cried out that even the increase proposed would be ruinous to many a publication. He suggested increase of rates...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED ?The vineyards of California, some of the sunshine and some of the bitterness, told by an old Italian peasant, the Frisco waitress he married by mail and a shiftless, handsome farm hand...