Second-class Postage Rates: Hearings Before the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, Second Session. April 30 and May 1, 1918 |
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50 miles 60-foot car 80 per cent adver advertising matter basis bill bundles carried cent a pound cent per pound CHAIRMAN circulation class of mail columns committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cost of handling cost of transportation daily newspapers distance estimate expense FARRELLY figures first-class mail gentlemen Government haul Hughes Commission increase July KOONS LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS mail matter MCANENY McKellar amendment ment Nashville Banner Newspaper Publishers newspapers circulate overhead charges Post Office Department postage rates Postmaster publications question railroads rate of postage reading matter revenue rural routes sample copies second-class mail second-class matter Senator HARDWICK Senator MCKELLAR Senator SMITH Senator VARDAMAN Senator WATSON sent SMITH of South South Carolina STAHLMAN subscribers subscription third zone tion tising to-day weekly weight zines zone of 300 zone rate zone system
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Page 46 - July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, the rates of postage on publications entered as second-class matter (including sample copies to the extent of ten per centum of the weight of copies mailed to subscribers during the calendar year) when sent by the publisher thereof from the post office of publication or other post office, or when sent by a news agent to actual subscribers thereto, or to other news agents for the purpose of sale...
Page 91 - ... of publication. The number of applications favorably acted on was 4,000, while 687 applications were denied. During the same period the issuance of 4,091 publications having a second-class status was discontinued, leaving 29,781 publications passing in the mails on June 30, 1917, at the secondclass rates of postage, a decrease of 91 as compared with the previous year. At the close of the year 1,849 news agents held permits to mail second-class publications at the rates applicable to second-class...
Page 46 - Postage on second-class matter, (a) In the case of publications entered as second-class matter, including sample copies to the extent of 10 per centum of the weight of copies mailed to subscribers during the calendar year, when sent by the publisher thereof from the post office of publication or other post office, or when sent by news agents to actual subscribers thereto, or to other news agents for the purpose of sale — (1...
Page 95 - I am appearing before your committee as chairman of the Postal Committee of the American Newspaper Publishers Association.
Page 66 - ... desirable. The commission reports that the evidence submitted for its consideration is sufficient to warrant a finding of the approximate cost of handling and transporting the several classes of second-class mail known as paid-at-the-pound rate, free-in-county, and transient matter, in so far as relates to the services of transportation, post-office cars, railway distribution, rural delivery, and certain other items of cost, but that it is without adequate data to determine the cost of the general...