The Gross Postal Revenue Of The United States For The
Year Ended June 30th, 1861, Was In Round Figures 1,
700,000l. This
was the amount actually cashed, exclusive of a sum of 140,000l. paid
to the post-office
By the government for the carriage of what is
called in that country free mail matter; otherwise, books, letters,
and parcels franked by members of Congress. The gross postal
revenue of the United Kingdom was in the last year, in round
figures, 3,358,000l., exclusive of a sum of 179,000l. claimed as
earned for carrying official postage, and also exclusive of
127,866l., that being the amount of money order commissions, which
in this country is considered a part of the post-office revenue. In
the United States there is at present no money order office. In the
United Kingdom the sum of 3,358,000l. was earned by the conveyance
and delivery of 593,000,000 of letters, 73,000,000 of newspapers,
12,000,000 of books. What number of each was conveyed through the
post in the United States we have no means of knowing; but presuming
the average rate of postage on each letter in the States to be the
same as it is in England, and presuming also that letters,
newspapers, and books circulated in the same proportion there as
they do with us, the sum above named of 1,700,000l. will have been
earned by carrying about 300,000,000 of letters.
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