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The San Juan Islander
Friday Harbor, San Juan County, Washington
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Postmaster General Meyer announced in Washington on Nov. 17 that the U.S. postal service had its largest-ever deficit of $16.9 million for the previous fiscal year, proposing a rural parcels post to achieve self-sufficiency.
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Washington, Nov. 17.—Postmaster General Meyer announces that the postal deficit for the last fiscal year was $16,910,278.99, the greatest in the history of the country. He suggests that as a means of preventing a deficit, a special local parcels post be inaugurated over rural free delivery routes. Postmaster General Meyer declared that the establishment of this parcels post would wipe out the deficit ultimately by making the rural delivery self supporting. The postal receipts for the last fiscal year were $191,478,663.41, and the expenditures were $208,351,880. The receipts for the fiscal year 1908 exceeded those of the fiscal year 1907 by $7,893,657.84.
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Washington
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Nov. 17
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postal deficit of $16,910,278.99 for the last fiscal year; receipts $191,478,663.41; expenditures $208,351,880; 1908 receipts exceeded 1907 by $7,893,657.84
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Postmaster General Meyer announced the largest postal deficit in history and suggested inaugurating a special local parcels post over rural free delivery routes to make rural delivery self-supporting and eliminate the deficit.