Annual Report of the Postmaster GeneralU.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 - Postal service |
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acts and deficiencies annum Assistant Postmaster Audited expenditures authorized to expend average Balance unexpended bonds cable car service cent City delivery carriers City Delivery Service class post offices Clerks compensation Congress contract section decrease deposits domestic money orders ended June 30 equipment established expend not exceeding expenditure accounts-Service fiscal year 1917 fiscal year ended fourth class freight funds Government Government-owned including special acts increase indemnity insured international money orders labor legislation loss Mail bags ment miles Miscellaneous items money orders issued money-order service operation paid parcel post pneumatic tubes Post Office Department postage stamps postal employees postal revenues Postal Savings System Postal Service Postmaster General authorized pounds railroads Railway Mail Service Railway post office receipts registered mail repair Rural Delivery Service Salaries second class post space basis stamped envelopes stamped paper star routes supplies tion Total Travel expenses trucks Unpaid money orders vehicle service
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Page 77 - Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States...
Page 32 - Provided, however, That membership in any society, association, club, or other form of organization of postal employees not affiliated with any outside organization imposing an obligation or duty upon them to engage in any strike, or proposing to assist them in any strike, against the United States...
Page 32 - Washington, are hereby forbidden, either directly or indirectly, individually or through associations, to solicit an increase of pay or to influence or attempt to influence in their own interest any other legislation whatever, either before Congress or its committees, or in any way save through the heads of the Departments in or under which they serve, on penalty of dismissal from the Government service.
Page 11 - Commission, as hereinafter provided for, the existing method and rates of railway mail pay shall remain in effect, except on such routes or systems as the Postmaster General shall select, and to the extent he may find it practicable and necessary to place upon the space system of pay in the manner and at the rates provided in this section, with the consent and approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, in order to properly present to the Interstate Commerce Commission the matters .hereinafter...
Page 59 - Administration, not in excess of five hundred dollars ($500), may be paid to the person or persons who, under the laws of the domicile of the decedent, or an applicable Federal statute, would be entitled to receive the money if administration were had.* [Par.
Page 80 - An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes", approved June 3, 1916 (39 Stat.
Page 27 - General, to the effect that the efficiency or needs of the service requires that a change shall be made, the Postmaster General shall certify the fact to the Civil Service Commission which shall forthwith hold an open competitive examination to test the fitness of applicants to fill such vacancy, and when such examination has been held and the papers in connection therewith have been rated the...
Page 27 - Hereafter when a vacancy occurs in the position of postmaster of any office of the first, second, or third class as the result of death, resignation, removal, or, on the recommendation of the First Assistant Postmaster General, approved by the Postmaster General, to the effect that the efficiency or needs of the service requires that a change shall be made...
Page 31 - ... Letter Carrier, Railway Postal Clerk, or other postal employee, shall visit Washington, whether on leave with or without pay, for the purpose of influencing legislation before Congress. Any such employee of the Postal Service who violates this order shall be liable to removal. Postmasters and other employees of the Postal Service are paid by the Government for attending to the respective duties assigned to them, which do not include efforts to secure legislation.
Page 64 - ... dissemination of information of a public character, or devoted to literature, the sciences, arts, or some special industry, and having a legitimate list of subscribers ; provided, however.