Low-back 95,826,243 High-back 29,411,708 Open-window 4,671,750 Extra-quality 466,000 Special-request 95,371,000 ----------- 225,746,701 TREASURY STAMPS AND CERTIFICATES SINCE DECEMBER 15, 1921 $ 1.00 stamps 43,017 25.00 certificates 12,471 100.00 certificates 11,403 1000.00 certificates 1,195 If the postage and revenue stamps shown above could be placed lengthwise, in one single line, it would reach a distance of 26,876 miles, more than enough to encircle the earth. _Pay-roll Worries of Magnitude_ The cashier's office pays the salaries of the 15,000 employees of the New York office, which in the last fiscal year amounted to $23,594,824.60. It also pays many of the employees of the Railway Mail Service, this salary list for the year totaling $5,103,717.11; also all the rural delivery carriers in New York State, their earnings being $3,394,540.56 for the year. A feature of the parcel-post system is the indemnity which is paid in the case of damage or loss to insured parcels. When applications for indemnities are received from the public they are investigated by the Inquiry Section, and when it is determined that payment should be made, the cashier's office makes the disbursement. Approximately 200 drafts are drawn daily to cover these cases. Mention has been made of treasury savings certificates handled by the New York office, which in the month of July were sold to the value of about $600,000. These certificates, as the name indicates, while issued by the Treasury Department are handled largely by the Post-office Department as a convenience to the public and in the interest of the government to better promote the sales. The large amount of one month's sales indicates the measure of service thus provided and the extent to which it is used. _Office of the Auditor_ The auditor is the checking officer of all receipts and disbursements of the New York post-office. The position is held by Mr. Justus W. Salzmann, another postal veteran, and his corps audits the postal, money-order, and postal-savings accounts, prepares statements of these accounts for transmission to the comptroller of the Post-office Department, and verifies the money-order and postal accounts of mail clerks in charge of post-offices on naval vessels. He also audits the accounts of approximately 1400 post-offices in the State of New York known as "district offices," of which New York City is the Central Accounting office, and he corresponds with the postmasters of these offices in connection with the conduct of their offices.