Report Of The First Assistant Postmaster General

Author : United States Post Office Department
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260446435
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Rural Free Delivery, Its History and Development written by United States Post Office Department and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rural Free Delivery, Its History and Development: Extracts From the Annual Report of First Assistant Postmaster-General Perry S. Heath for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1899 Postmaster-general William S. Bissell, in his report for 1893, con curred ih the opinion of First Assistant postmaster-general Frank H. Jones, that the Department would not be warranted in burdening the people with such a great expense. In his annual. Report for 1894 postmaster-general Bissell declined to expend the small appropriation of made by Congress to test the feasibility of the scheme, stating that the proposed plan of rural free delivery, if adopted, would result in an additional cost to the people of about 000 for the first year, and that he did not believe the people were yet ready to involve themselves in such a large expenditure for the purpose. When Congress increased the appropriation for a test to in 1895, postmaster-general William L. Wilson adopted the views of his predecessor, Mr. Bissell and of the House Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, that the plan of establishing rural free delivery w rs wholly impracticable. He added that he had assumed control of the Department too late in the fiscal year to take any at tion under the appropriation, but, should Congress see fit to make it available for the current year, he would put the experiment ordered to the test by the best methods he could devise. Congress made available, and in 1800 postmaster-general Wilson, with many expressed misgivings, put the service to the test, saying that he had taken care to rhoose territory widely divergent in physical features, and in the occupation and density of its population. 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.