Excerpt from Railway Mail Pay: An Outline of the Post Office Department's Position Maximum rates of pay are prescribed in the law. These are applicable to the average daily weights carried upon authorized mail routes ascertained by weighings held once every four years. On each route the mails are weighed for a period of 105 successive days. The rates are arranged on a sliding scale, whereby, as the weights increase, the rates decrease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.