Over $47,000 In One Year

OVER $47,000 IN ONE YEAR

Receipts of Ann Arbor Post Office for 1902

NEARLY $5,000 INCREASE

Over 1,700,000 Stamps Sold Besides the Stamped Paper and Postal Cards

The receipts of the Ann Arbor postoffice tor the year 1902 were $47,784 46. The receipts for 1901 were $43,066.11 showing a gain of $4,718.35 in the year or approximately 10 per cent.

As the last year has shown the heaviest receipts of any year in the history of the office, so the last quarter has been the largest in the history of the office reaching the large total of $14,179.14 or at the rate of $56,000 year. By quarters in 1902 the receipts have been:

January quarter... $13,749.20

April quarter... 11,154.70

July quarter... 9,101.42

October quarter... 14,179.14

Total... $47,784.46

The receipts by quarters in 1901 were:

January quarter... $11,927.64

 April quarter... 9,969.41

July quarter... 8,385.66

October quarter... 12,783.40

Total... $43,006.11

The receipts for the last quarter for 1902 were as follows:

October... $5,477.29

November... 4,017.41

December... 4,684.44

October, 1902, was the banner month in postoffice history. The sales that month were at the rate of over $65,000 a year.

During the year stamps of the following denomination were sold:

One cent... 356,849

Two cent... 1,328,235

Three cent... 10,223

Four cent... 6,500

Five cent... 13,731

Six cent... 6,500

Eight cent... 5,352

Ten cent... 6,979

Thirteen cent... 337

Fifteen cent... 1,885

Fifty cent... 22

Ten cent special delivery... 4,366

Total number stamps... 1,740,779

This does not include the stamped envelopes or the postal cards which would run the total number of stamps and stamped paper to over two million.