The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-04
HOW EXPRESS cos.
 CONDUCT BUSINESS
Secretary of Postal League Compares Post Office
 Service.
CONG. BENEFITS BILL

James l.. Cowles, secretary of the Postal Progress League, was in town yesterday for the purpose of visiting the officers of the Bridgeport Busi- ness Mems Association, whom he de- sires to interest in the postal bill in trodueed by Congressman Bennett of New York, which provides for a. limit ed service by parcels post. MT. Cowles expects Bridgeport merchants to be especially interested in the clause of the bill which provides for a local ser vice on rural routes.
 Incidentally MT. Cowles furnished to the Farmer some interesting compari- sons between the rates charge by the U. $. post office, the rates charge by express companies, and the relations the United States and the rest of the world under the parcel post conven- tions with the nations of Europe. MT. Cowles' communication follows: The express system of discriminating in favor of large towns against small towns. of large dealers against small dealers, is clearly set forth by the Interstate Commerce Commission in the, case of ''The Boise Commercial Club of Boise, Idaho, vs. The Adams Express Co. and others" decided June 2a, 1909.
 When either the point of origin or destination is an exclusive office of one express company, collect par eel pays as many different rates as there are lines that handle it. When the entire service between the points | of origin and destination is operated by a. single company or by each of two or more companies, the "cOllect' parcel pays out one rate though handled by each of the different companies in its transit These express rules apply to adl collect parcels and to all parcels Jscroo %41, os&s whether the charges be prepaid or col lected, but prepaid parcels up to 25 pounds dispatched by manufacturers and dealers who give the express com | panies large and continuous shipments enjoy special rate of one cent Der | ounce, the charge in no case to be less | than Is cents package.
 These special rates. however, are for
 bidden to packages forwarded by 1 transient" shippers.
 Boise is an exclusive office of the Pacific Express Co.,, but New York l city is not favored with it's service. An pound collect parcel from New | York to Boise is therefore taxed 20
 by whomsoever dispatched and the | parcel of the ordinary New York citi- | zen pays the same rate whether the 1 charge be prepaid or collected. The | t'prepaid' packet of a large New York | manufacturer or dealer, however, pays | but SIPS. If New York and Boise were | both served by the Pacific Express l Co.,, the common rate between the two l points would be S1.20. If a parcel be | press companies between New York and Buffalo and thence by the Pacific I Express Co. to Boise, the charge is S1.70; if it be expressed locally to other ] junction points and thence to Boise, | the total charge varies from s1.75 to $2O0.
 Contrast this service of the private l express companies of the U. S. with E1o @f ~ff
 under the parcels post conventions of the U. s. with the nations of Europe as determined by the postmaster gen. eral of the U- S. by and with the ad- Il March g, 1909.
 Under the rules of the Universal
 Postal Union each State keeps the
 postage it collects from it's citizens No State may increase it's rates above
 those of the Union but any State may
 reduce it's foreign rates at its will, an6
 international courtesy requires tha whatever the postage, the fully pre-
 paid parcel of a foreign State must be delivered free in the State of the ad
 dreSsee. New Zealand'S prepaid
 cent letters have been delivered fire, in this country since 1901 although ou | administration continues to tax us fiv, | cents on our replies.
 | With a few exceptions the common weight limit of the international par
 cels post service of the world is clever l pOunOS- Ine common rate or the U
 s. on her outbound parcels is 12 cent
 a pound and act of internationa courtesy the different countries O , South America with whom we hay 3 conventions deliver our prepaid 12 cent | a-pound parcels to their addreSsee
 free of extra, charge although they ta. their own citizens, in some cases cents pound. on their parcels to tn
 U. S. In the same spirit the U.
 delivers European full-paid parcels t
 their addresses in this country, al e though the postage thereon is yer . much less than that paid on our pal
 cels to those States.
 FOREIGN PARCELS SERVICE To and from all points in the Unite n States. Common weight limit e pounds-rate from the U. $. F cents
 | pound. Rrom the United States
 Europe lbs. 9S cents-11 lbs. s1.32.
 s Tbs. Il lb
 From Germany, 65c s1 cen From Austria, 69c S6 cen : | From Italy, 79c 79 cen '- From Great Britain, S5c S1.1O l. | From Norway. 72c 96 cen . From The Netherlands soc s1.04 e These rates are uniform for all pc n sons and all places within the diffe e ent countries regardless of distanc
 regardless of the character of the ma IF ter transported or of the amount i business.
 l. Express Rates to Boise, Idaho. II The rates to Boise. Idaho, on pour T. parcels vary from 30 cents for u 1T shortest railway haul to S2.20 mor e Boise being an exclusive point with 'I the Pacific Express Co.'S jurisdictit it sometimes happens that the rat = to Boise for a long distance are mu' | less than for a shorter distance. e Ordinary rates on eight pound pa D. cels to Boise, Idaho:
 S. From Buffalo, New York, 2,437 mile 'r $1.20.
 From Corfu, New York, 2,459 mile i. 20.
 | 't s220.
 of From Cleveland. Ohio, 2,2s5 mile