Report Of The Railway Postal Service Commissioners Classic Reprint

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ISBN 13 : 9781332214990
Total Pages : 130 pages
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Download or read book Railway Mail Pay written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Railway Mail Pay: Report of the Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for the Transportation of Mail, August 31, 1914; Sixty-Third Congress, Second Session To the Joint Committee on Postage on Second-class Mail Matter and Compensation for the Transportation of Mail: Gentlemen: On May 28, 1914, our committee adopted the following resolution: Resolved, That the chairman be authorized by the joint committee to prepare the report of the joint committee. The extreme technicality of the subject, the desirability of making a presentation clear to the layman and at the same time convincing to the statistician and specialist, has made the task a most difficult one. If I have seemed slow in complying with your request, it has been because of my earnest desire that when our report should be presented to Congress it shall contain an analysis of the vast amount of data that has been accumulated, and shall present concisely, yet comprehensively, the plan we have agreed upon and the facts and arguments which led to our conclusions. I feel that, under all the circumstances and difficulties that we have had to contend with, the work of our committee has been remarkably expeditious and that we have well performed the duties placed upon us by Congress as far as "compensation for the transportation of mail" is concerned. The actual work of our committee began in January, 1913, although in September preceding, immediately after the creation of our joint committee, I personally arranged for the collection of some of the information for the use of the committee. Our official investigation has, therefore, covered a period of nineteen months, which doubtless seems long to those unacquainted with our work, and was perhaps six months longer than the members of the committee believed it would take to complete the task. Our work has been made much more difficult than I anticipated it would be, because of the very remarkable lack of definite and reliable statistics in the Post Office Department and in railroad offices regarding railway mail pay questions. As you are well aware, most of the statistics submitted by the department were in the nature of estimates, some of which were changed a number of times. We have not, therefore, had the assistance we had a right to expect from an administrative branch of the Government presumed to be under the charge of specialists. Moreover, when this committee began its work it had before it a plan proposed by the Post Office Department, and recommended as "scientific and businesslike." The department subsequently modified its plan in many particulars and then entirely abandoned it, substituting a new plan in February of this year. 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.