INDEX TO ITEMS OF INTEREST
Annual readjustment salaries, [93]
Claims for stamps lost by burglary, [95]
Credit marks for rural carriers, [97]
Cost, country-wide extension rural delivery, [97]
Difference in dispatch parcel post matter, [93]
Department force at Washington reduced, [97]
Eligibles, fourth-class postmasters, [93]
Expenditure rural delivery by periods, [98]
First Postmaster General to sit at Capital, [94]
Gain to Department in fractions of a cent, [94]
Increase rural carriers’ pay, [96]
Longest mail route, [93]
Longest star route, [93]
Loss to Government by low money order rate, [95]
Mails first carried on steamboats, [98]
Number of counties having rural service, [93]
Names of postmasters mentioned in 1857, [95]
Number of postmasters affected by order of President, [96]
Per capita expenditure for postage, [94]
Patronage 100 years ago, [94]
Period of greatest activity, rural service, [99]
Post routes, rural delivery maps, [95]
Postal employes in public service, [97]
Paper baling machines, [99]
Postal curiosities in National Museum, [99]
Postmasters by classes, [93]
Postage stamp sale, 1916, [94]
Railroads declared post routes, [98]
Rural carriers separated from service, 1915-1916, [96]
Rates of postage, 1816 to 1853, [96]
Revision of rural service, [98]
Shortest postal route, [93]
Salary increases, rural carriers, [99]
Saving money by motor repairs, [98]
Sale postage stamps, 1916, [94]
Total railroad mileage, 1830, [96]
Window delivery service, [97]
When the Department was moved to Washington, [94]
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
—Obvious errors were corrected.
—The transcriber of this project created the book cover image using the title page of the original book. The image is placed in the public domain.