Is it to the extent of three, two or one million dollars? Is it lower than the lowest or higher than the highest figures just named? I do not know--do you? Have you, the reader, been able to ascertain from the records of the Postoffice Department, or elsewhere, any figures or data that enables you to make even a “frazzled” guess at the _approximate_ cost to the postal department of this unjust--_this politically and governmentally crooked_ burden put upon it? I have hunted and have found nothing but talk, and a few figures scattered here and there and gathered from--well, the Lord may know where. But the Lord has failed to inform me. So I am in ignorance--am benighted, just like our “poor farmers,” both as to the source of the figures I have seen and as to their force and value in reaching a fair conclusion as to the aggregate amount of postal revenues the departmental raiders have been and _are_ carrying off. If any reader knows or can dig up the facts, he will confer a great favor by handing the information to The Man on the Ladder. Not only that, but I am confident that the people of this country will give such reader a niche, if needed not a conspicuous position, in _their_ Hall of Fame, if he will give them even a dependable approximation of the extent to which the postal service revenues are raided--looted--by federal department abuses--_their service and their money_, for the departments pay not _one dollar_ for the thousands of tons of mail matter of the various classes which the Postoffice Department transports and handles for them. So far or so long has this departmental--_bureaucratic_, that is what it is--practice of raiding the postal revenues by _loading its service_ continued, that the Postoffice Department has been and is _looting itself by the same practice_. This volume is written during what is known as the “weighing period” in the postal service, the weighing being done to establish a basis for _four years_ on which the railroads transporting the federal mails shall be paid. In other words, as basis for a “railway-mail-pay” rate, which rate will govern railway contracts for carrying the mails for a period of four years. During the current weighing period I have, at various times, both during the day and at night, watched the weighing for varying intervals of from an hour to two hours. Among the revenue raids observed during those hours of leisure (?), I shall here mention a few. As the present Postmaster General treats all departmental, or “penalty,” matter as “franked” matter (See page 11 of the Postoffice Department report of 1910), I shall, in the brief mention of personally observed facts at several railway stations in Chicago do likewise. (1) Three carloads of Senate speeches, franked to Chicago in bulk, the bulk then broken and the speeches remailed, under frank, to individual addresses.