The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-11-23

ing our great Post-Road Stations
with the homes of the people, the
time would soon arrive when within
the perfected system Of transporta-
ton, we would have uniform rates,
door to door everywhere; parcels up
to pound in weight, 1-24 of a GU
bic foot in bulk, 1 cent; large parcels
up to pounds, 2 cents; II pound
parcels, cents; Is pounds, 10 cents;
60 pounds, Is cents; half barrel par
cells, 100 pounds. 20 cents; barrel
parcels, 4 cubic feet, 200 pounds, rs
cents; etc, paying the full cost Of
the service render ed.
| believe that our common welfare
demands the immediate extension of
the postoff1ce over the whole business
of public transportation and trans
mission. The next best thing would
be the extension of our Cent-a-Pound
Publishers Post to cover all mail
matter. The least that can be ex-
pected of Congress this winter, as
it seems to me, is the Establishment
of a Parcels Post as cheap and as
extended as that provided by our
bill, H. X. IA, introduced April 4,
1911, by Hon. Williams Sulzer of
New York, entitled:
"a BILL
''To reduce postal rates, to improve
the postal service, and to increase
postal revenues"
This bill increases the general
weight limit Of the Postal Service
from 4 to II pounds and consolidates
the Third and Fourth Glass of Mail
Matter in the General Service at 1
cent each ounces, 8 cents a pound,
the old common merchandise rate of
1847, and the rate at which parcels
OF merchandise are now posted from
Germany, Austria and Italy through
out this country under our existing
Parcels Post Conventions. The pro-
posed domestic rate is indeed little
higher than the existing foreign rate.
In city free delivery services, this
bill provides for local sealed par
Gel Or letter service, consolidating the
First, Third and Fourth Glasses Of
Mail Matter at cents the first four
ounces, 1 cent each additional two
ounces, the common Letter Post Rate
of Great Britain.
Section Third consolidates all mail
matter in one class in the local SER
vices of our rural routes at common
rate, parcels up to 1-24 of cubic
foot in dimensions, 1 pound in
weight, 1 cent; larger parcels up to
IL cubic foot II pounds in weight,
cents; larger parcels up to 1 cubic
foot, 6x12x24 inches, the capacity of
the ordinary suit case and up to %
pounds in weight, 10 cents.
Section Fourth provides for the in
surance of all mail matter; the ordi-
nary postage carrying insurance up
to $40 the 10 cents registration fee
insures parcels of declared value up
to $50, and an additional fee of
cents for each additional $50 carries
insurance up to full value of the par
Gel.
With this bill enacted into law the
mailing Of but 25 pounds of merchan-
disc year by the average American
family, in it's postal traffic at the new :
8 cent a pound rate, would insure
the annual merchandise income of
the Post Office from the $S,000,00O
of 1907 to over $50, 1000, and the
mailing Of similar amount by the
average city family in their local
service would add a local city income
of full $40, 100000. The wants of
the average rural family would surely
require the posting to and from the
post town and the home of at least
one 10 cent packet week and even