Statements showing operations and results of foreign mail service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1875. The postages on United States and European mails were as follows: The aggregate amount of letter postage (sea, inland, and foreign) on the mails exchanged With the United Kingdom. With Germany.. With France With Belgium.... With the Netherlands With Italy... With Switzerland With Denmark. With Norway $672, 189 28 371,239 74 119,059 21 15,236 6s 19,863 46 47,436 49 37,244 74 18,814 21 31,636 97 50,005 3 $1,383,329 (3 With Sweden Total postages Being a decrease of $55,470.96, compared with the amount reported for the previous year. The postages on mails sent to Europe were as follows, viz: The postages on mails received from Europe were as follows, viz: Number of letters (single rates) sent from the United States.... $324,963 3 175,751 52 65,216 77 9,059.99 10,063 2× 27,579 87 19,5-1 65 9,810 36 15,099 77 28, 220 07 8684,646 77 $7-3,364 73 599,964 90 $183,399 Number of letters (single rates) received from Europe.... Total.... 9,746,45 9, 206, 102 18,959, 5 Being a decrease of 1,014,505, compared with the number reported for the previous year. The excess of postages on mails sent from the United States to different countries of Europe, over that on mails received from the same countries, was as follows: The excess of postages on mails received over those on mails sent was as follows: Payments during fiscal year ended June 30, 1875, to ocean-steamship lines transporting mails for the sea-postages as compensation for the service: Weight of correspondence exchanged during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1875, between the United States and the countries of Ery with which the United States have concluded postal conventions. |