Postal Rates

Last spring (TIME, Mar. 9) Congressmen decided to increase the pay of postal employes an aggregate of $68,000,000 a year. Congress was then in a nice quandary. How could it increase revenues that amount without offending everyone concerned? It patched up some kind of law and passed it, promising that it was only tentative and would be revised at the next session.

Last week a special committee which is to draft the revised measure opened meetings in Washington. To see how the tentative increases in postal rates...

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