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Latest Facts[7]
General Postal History[11]
Beginning of Personal Communication[12]
Postal History of England[12]
Penny Postage[13]
General Post Office in London[14]
French and German Postal History[15]
The American Colonial Period[16]
Under the Continental Congress[16]
The Crown Postmasters[17]
Post Offices and Post Roads Established[18]
The Period of Progress[18]
Postage Stamps Introduced[19]
Progressive Steps Taken[19]
Historical Data[20]

CHAPTER II

Questions of Finance. Postal Revenue—How Derived and Expended

Revenues and Expenditures[21]
Method of Expenditure[21]
Appropriations[22]
Auditor[23]

CHAPTER III

Departmental Operations—General and Detailed Descriptions and Cost of Service

History of Rural Free Delivery[24]
Rural Delivery Defined[25]
The Struggle for Rural Delivery[25]
The Advantages of Rural Delivery[26]
Rural Delivery as Viewed by President McKinley[27]
First County Rural Delivery[27]
Country-Wide Extension, Rural Delivery[28]
How Rural Delivery Enhances the Value of Farm Land[28]
Per Capita Cost, in Rural Delivery[29]
Some Necessary Conditions, Rural Delivery[31]
Annual Cost per Patron by States and Pieces Handled[31]
Population and Extension, Rural Service[32]
Motor Vehicle Routes, Rural Delivery[32]
Village Delivery[34]
City Delivery[35]
Star Routes[35]
Postal Savings[35]
Money Order System[36]
Stamp Books[36]
Postal Cards[37]
Division of Stamps[37]
Classification[37]
Purchasing Agent[38]
Dead Letter Office[38]
Mail Locks[39]
Mail Pouches[39]
Post Office Supplies[41]
Special Delivery[42]
Foreign Mail Service[42]
Topography Branch[43]
Division of Post Office Service[44]
American Postal System[45]
Considerate Treatment of Newspaper Mail[45]

CHAPTER IV

Special Articles