Word: postals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury would be more than $2,000,000,000 in the red next June 30. But Treasury actuaries explained that the July-August period was an inaccurate gauge for a full year, "guessed" that the 1932 deficit would approximate $1,500,000,000. Chief items of increased expense: postal service, public construction to absorb unemployment...
...biggest plants in the U. S.; ship-building at Navy yards; operation of the Alaskan Railroad by the Department of the Interior; the U. S. Shipping Board's fleet;* helium production for the Navy by the Bureau of Mines; Post Office banking in the form of postal savings accounts; lumbering in national forests by the Department of Agriculture; real estate sales by the General Land Office. Private educators could ask to have Howard University (Negro) in Washington put out of business. Railway Express Agency would like to see the Post Office Department get out of the parcel post business...
...same correspondence to the same destination. The U. S. Post Office Department has ordered several rate increases on foreign first class mail as of Sept. 1. To Britain and the Irish Free State letter postage has been upped 3? for the first ounce, in an attempt to reduce the postal deficit and bring first-class revenue closer to actual transportation costs. If the Seattlite thought he could beat this letter postage increase by using a postcard, he would find that on it too the rate had been jacked up from 2? to 3?. If his London correspondent journeyed to Spain...
Spain is a member of the Pan-American Postal Union. Under that international convention U. S. letters carry only 2? postage to South and Central American countries. It costs no more to mail a letter from Duluth, Minn, to Punta Arenas. Chile, near Cape Horn than it does from Nogales, Ariz, across the street to Nogales, Mexico. Only South American exceptions to the 2? rate are Dutch and French Guiana, which, as non-members of -the Pan-American Postal Union, require 5? postage...
Because Canada increased its first class postal rate to the U. S. from 2? to 3? on July 1, the Post Office Department ordered U. S. letter mail to Canada to pay 3?-instead of 2? after Sept.1...