Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1899 — MAKES A GOOD SHOWING. [ARTICLE]

MAKES A GOOD SHOWING.

Free Delivery Service Is Now Extended to 738 Po.toffices. In working on his annual report First Assistant Postmaster General Heath is both surprised and pleased at the favorable showing of tbe free delivery service. In the fiscal year ended June 30 last fifty offices were given free delivery, ■taking a total of 7:18. Tbe number of carriers is now 14.250. an increase of 4 per <-ent over the preceding year. The groatTreeeipts were $(18,957,815.81, as against ss»^#tßl,Bo4.(iß. ao increase of 21.51 per cent, substantial!/ double the figures for any other year since the free delivery service began.