The Brinkley argus., 1912-12-27

cost more per pound to send pack
 age long distance than it does tc
 send it short distance. The rate in
 creat,s for a package weighing one
 pound at the rate of one cent for
 each zone. No package weighing
 more than II pounds can be sent un
 der the new parcel post law. Ii should be said right here that on the
 long hauls the parcel post may not be able to compete with the express companies. but that on shorter hauls it can so compete. It was the ex- pressed desire of the legislators and of the postoffice officials that the par eel post system should be made of l particular use to persons having farm and factory products to transmit to customers It is probable that pro ducers must study the rates of post age and the convenience of trans initial and compare them with the cost and convenience under present methods before individually man can determine whether he is to profit or not by the change. Then there is an- other thing to be considered and which only can be known definitely when fuller regulations have been made to specify exactly what kind of things can be sent by parcel post. It can be said in general way that any thing can be sent which is properly wrapped and which will not inture other mail matter with which it may come in contact
 Copy Foreign Countries.
 will adopt means of transportation for certain kinds of it's merchandise much like those which have been adopted in parcel post countries abroad What the English call ham pers, basket-lke arrangements, prob ably will be adopted, and as these can be kept separate from the ordinary mail matter it is believed that the regulations as finally adopted will al low the sending of eggs, butter. dress ed poultry live poultry, honey, fruit, and other products of the country.
 The 11-pound limit for single pack age may work at first against any very extended use of the parcel post for some of the articles which have been named Of course, more weight can be sent If 1t is sent in different parcels, but the cost in that case would be heavier because the in- crease per pound on single package is not great up to II pounds, and probably 1t would increase at no great CT rate If the government were to raise the limit of weight which is now fixed To make it simpler, it will cost more to send two packages of II pounds than it would to send one package of 22 pounds if the govern ment eventually should allow heavi CT single package to be carried and should charge in proportion just what 1t does now for one package of Il pounds tight
 Everv postmaster in the United States will have a parcel post map like the one which is here reproduced except that the zone lines will be shown with the unit of his postoffice as center All that a postmaster wi'l have to do when a parcel is pre- cGnlcA lOt u hiiS poi ID lo out in what zone the destination of the package lies. His table will show him instantly the rate per pound from the unit in which his postoffiee lies 10 the zone of the packages destina- tions, the price as has been explained before, to every postofHce In any one gone being the same The parcel pest Vvfig t@ ta aA Lvssy S~x,,...t, f,<. -. 2 ter Printed matter is still in the third-class designation Therefore books cannot be sent by the parcel post system. This the postoftice au- thorities seem t. think is in way unjust and may work Q hardship. It mTv be that in the future the law will b gged so as tc include all print ea i.e ter. It see!ns to be certain that an attempt will be made to bring [ bout this change as speedily as pos sible.
 Must Bes- Stamp.
 Postmaster General Hitchcock has ordered that rost,.1stcgs De advised that parcel post packages cannot be accepted for mailing unless they bear a distinctive parcel post stamp and have attached to them the return card of the sender A series of distinctive stamps Is now in course of prepara- tion for this class of mail as required by the law creating the parcel post system Consignments of these stamps will be ready for shipment to all postoffices in ample time for the establishm mt of the new system on New Years day
 The postoffice department haa given instruction to every postmaster in the country to enlighten his patrons as much as possible on the general sub ject of the parcel post and especially on the use of the special stamps and the necessary attachment of the re- turn card. The law requires that all fourth class matter mailed ter Jan uary l, 1913. without parcel post stamps attached shall be treated as Held for postage" matter Parcel post packages will be mailable only at postofiices. branch postoffices, let tered and local named stations, and such numbered stations as may be designated by the postmasters
 It has been announced by Postmas- 1 ter General Hitchcock that nearly TO- 1 GOO scales will be required for use in