The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-04

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 From Euclid. Ohio. 2.3o6 miles, s22o. S2.10.
 From New York city. over 2.SOO miles.
 prepaid parcels dispatched by large manufacturers. SIPS.
 DOMESTIC RCELS POST.
 The Congressional limitation of our domestic parcels service to four pound parcels at one cent an ounce makes 1t
 necessary to divide eight pounds of
 total tax of SIPS; eleven pounds into
 three parcels paying s176. The one
 cent-an-ounce rate is 100 per cent
 higher than the old one cent two ounce rate of 1874 and it is 25 per cent. higher
 than the rate on our foreign bound
 parcels. It is about 100 per cent.
 higher than the rate on German par
 cells sent to the same address in this
 country. The refusal of Congress to
 insure our domestic parcels even when
 registered, throws the business even in
 the case of the prepaid parcels sent by large manufacturers and large dealers
 from New York to Boise, Idaho, into the hands of the express companies. who will insure an eight pound parcel against loss or damage in its course to Boise for SIPS while the postal charge of the same amount provides no insurance whatever. And yet within the fast three years a Postal Commission of Congress has declared that: Upon the postal ser
 vice more than upon anything else does the general economic as well as the social and political development of the country depend.
 House of Representatives Resolution
 10762, introduced by Hon. Wm. s. Ben nett of New York, June r, 1909, pro vides:
 First for a general merchandise service in unsealed parcels at l cent per two ounces, the old mer- chandise rate of 1874. | Second, for a local city sealed parcels service at 2 cents for ounces, 1c each additional ounces the generated sealed parcel or let ter rate of Great Britain. Third, for a local service on the rural rates-all mail matter in one class with rates as follows: Par | cels up to 1x6X12 inches. 1-24th of a | cubic foot in bulk and up to 1 | pound in weight, one cent | Larger parcels up to 6x12x12
 inches, 1-2 the ordinary suit case or to one-half a cubic foot in bulk l and up to Il pounds, in weight, 5 l cents.
 | Larger parcels up to 6x12x24 | inches or to the size of the ordinary suit case or 1 cubic foot in bulk and up to 25 pounds in weight, 10 | cents.
 | Fourth, for the insurance of all | mail matter-the ordinary rates to | carry insurance up to ten dollars; | the eight cent registration fee to | insure up to $25; two cents addi- tional for each additional fifty dol | lars to insure up to the full value l of the parcel.
 | While this bill falls very short o1
 the public needs, its enactment into | law would go far toward emancipatins the American public from the domin- | ion of the American express compan ies. We believe it would increase the postal revenues by scores of million: | of dollars a year and would save the public over a hundred million dollar: | a year. We ask the general public | throughout the United States to joir | with us in arousing the irresistible
 public opinion which will warran | Congress in the enactment of this bil into law before the close of the coming | long session.
 | POSTAL PROGRESS LEAGUE, | James L. Cowles, Secy-Treas., | 361 Broadway, New York City