Evening journal., 1912-12-28
S0ME DONT'S
FOR PARCELS
POST USERS
Postage Stamps and Street
Mail Boxes Not for New
Package System
READ AND LEARN IS
ADVICE TO DEALERS

everything in our power to prevent
every shipper from going wrong. In
fact we feel sure that no one need
fear to use the service. because of
failure to understand it, My first and
most important advice is. lust bring
the package to the Postofce, Jan
uary !, properly addressed. The rest
will be easy"
Mr.. Jester said he expects little or
no confusion in stating the services,
because he Will provide an ample
space for the receipt of packages and
VIII provide also an ample, we'll
drilled force TO handle it. Every pack
age must be brought TO the main
Office or a branch
The whole scale of rates for the
system is so complex that it fills a
huge reference book, which the Post
Office Department is selling for 75
cents. This can be obtained only
from Washington by addressing the
chicf clerk Postohice Department.
Firms in New York have already or
dered thousands Of these books and
maps. and Mr.. Jester is anxious for
wilmington concerns to send at once
Tor them so that the shipping depart
ment Of local concerns may begin
studying the system and be prepared
to give The Department the most busi-
ness with the least need for instruc-
Z ton at the Postohice.
Urges Care and Study.
Where a firm sends to the most
Office at one time two or three hum
dred packages, Mr.. Jester is anxious
that tho chfnpar 1nf,,,,1.- -,-ftl. ,11 Al.
requirements by a thorough study be-
fore hand OF the rates for each pack
age.
The charges under the parcel post
system will be as follows Local
rate, cents for first pound and 1
cent for each additional pound: zone
No II, 80 miles. cents for first
pound and 9 cents for each additional:
zone No. .. 100 miles. cents for first
pound, 4 cents each additional: zone
No. 3, 800 miles, cents first cents
each additional: zone No 4, 600 miles.
8 cents for first, each additional:
zone No. 5, 1000 miles, cents first, z
cents each additional; zone No 6
1,400 miles, 10 cents first, cents
each additional: zone No Z. 1,S00
miles. IL cents first 10 cents each ad-
ditional; zone No. 8, ~ cents first and
II cents each additional pound.
5 Maximum, II pounds.
Short-Cut Method.
A unique shortcut method of call
culating the zone rates has been
worked out by a clerk i'm the local
post office The key to the system is
This table:
First
(a) Local or rural district. L 4
(b) Fifty miles ...........3 ?
Second Fifty to $50 miles ......4 ,
Thrd-One hundred and fifty TO
800 miles Observation-Disclosures.
Fourth-Three hundred to 500
miles .-..........-..-... 2
Fifth-Six hundred to 1000 miles 2
Sixth-One thousand to 400
miles ........ ............... 9 1
Seventh Fourteen hundred TO
1900 miles Observation-Disclosures
Eighth-Over 1900 miles. ....12
To obtain a rate multiply the first
figure by the number of pounds and
add the second figure. The result will
be the postage required stated in
cents.
Special Stamps Used.
One thing the postofiice people hope
the public will clearly understand.
that after January 1 all fourth-class
matter. by which is meant all mer-
chandise of every description if sent
throught the mails must bear the dis
tinctiyc Parcel Post stamps. III any
such packages are sent under ordin-
airy postage. even at the present rate,
which may be higher than the rate
applying under the Parcel Post. it
will be held for postage, and the send
er so notified.
To the end that this notification
may be sent every package must bear
the name and address of the sender.
If the requisite postage is not receiv-
ed from the sender within a certain
specified time, the package is to be
marked unclaimed" and sent to the
Dead Letter Office. There are how
ever. some circumstances in which the
package may be delivered and the de-
ficient postage collected from the adj
dresses. 1t must be remembered that
double rate of postage will be charged
on parcels reaching their destination
with only ordinary. special delivery,
postage due to registry stamps affix-
ed
One OF the most important features
Of the Parcel Post is the radical in
crease in the variety of articles which
can be sent through the mails, as well
as the heavier weight and larger size
OF the packages. Dealers throughout
the country are preparing for enor-
nous increases in mail orders, and
housewives are getting ready to eX-
tend their shopping areas to previous
ly undreamt-of distances. or course,
much has been said as to the at
titude Of the big mail order houses
OF the Middle West in regard to the
new facilities, and they have been
looked upon as having been the prime
urgcrs of the present law. But il ap-
pears that they do not regard it as an
unmixed blessing.
II is said that their experience has
been that when some one, say, a
woman i'm little town or country
rvillage several miles distant from
Chicago, sees an article in one of
these mammoth catalogues which she
desires to buy. but on which the ex-
pressage would be prohibitive, she US
ually does one of two things Either
she will increase her own order by
adding other things from the catalo-
que, so as to bring the express rate
to a fair average on the whole lot, or
she will go around anong her neigh
bors and endeavor to make up "cluh
order" thus having them share the
expressage with her. Under the par
cells post rates il is believed that she
will have far less incentive to build