Postal savings

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Identifikator:: 869930397

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-49420

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Kemmerer, Edwin Walter http://d-nb.info/gnd/101827717

Title:: Postal savings

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Humphrey Milford

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 176 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IV - Depositors and deposits

Collection:: Economics Books

DEPOSITORS AND DEPOSITS 75 which the system has been in operation was as follows : 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 $ 57 83 102 112 125 143 While this shows a healthy increase in the aver age balance, it throws little light upon the sizes of the items that make up these averages. Third Assistant Postmaster-General Dockery said, De cember 4, 1915: “We have now more than 30,- 000 depositors who have reached the limit—who have deposited all they are permitted to deposit under the postal savings law—and 22,000 of the 30,000 who have reached the limit of deposits are foreign born.” 16 This was exclusive of the de posits which had been withdrawn for investment in 2J per cent postal savings bonds. On the other hand, the facts previously noted 17 —that on June 30, 1916, there were 259 postal savings banks each having only one dollar on deposit, and 447 whose deposits ranged between $2 and $10—are evidence of a large number of petty accounts. From the earliest agitation for a postal lf> The U. S. Post. Savs. Sys. p. 8. 17 Page 55. sav-

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