Evening journal., 1912-12-27
SUPPLIES
COME In FOR
PARCELS POST

Postmaster NJ Howard Jester has
received a consignment OF parcel
post stamps for use I'm the local post
Office when the new parcel-post sys-
tenn goes into effect on January 1.
The stamps are pink IN color and OBJ
long IN shape The denominations
are: One cent, with mail clerk
shown on It dispatching mail; two
cent, showing reuter- carrier deliv-
ering mail; four cent, showing rural
mail carrier; five cent showing rail-
way mail train and mail pouch catch
er; ten cent, showing an ocean mail
liner with tender alongside; fifteen
cent, showing the use of the automo-
bile in the postal service; twenty
cent, showing an aeroplane mail car
rier; twenty-five cent, showing a
manufacturing plant. and seventy-five
cent, showing a harvesting scene.
The postage due stamps are dark and
range in denomination from one to
twenty-five cents. The stamps are
rather pretty and stamp collectors
will no doubt want them in their
collection
Postmaster Jester and his assist
ant. Leroy w. Hickman are engaged
I'm perfecting plans for the installa-
tion of the new system here. At
first there will be put in use light
wagon for the delivery Of all parcel
post packages received at the local
postofice for delivery in this city. AS
the business grows more wagons will
| be hired and i'm this way the service
will improve as this kind Of mail in
! creases Mr.. Jester believes that bet
ter service can be given with wagons
rather than autos, because OF the
frequent stops required
In the beginning, parcel-post pack
ages for delivery outside the city
will be received only at the post
Office, at Ninth and Shipley streets
I and none accepted at the sub-stations
Postmaster Jester explained today
that he had decided to do this in order
to meet at the postohice the people
I who will use this department of tho
postal service and educate them IN
the use of the service; how to mai
packages and the necessity of plac
ing on them a return card and thi
parcel-pOst stamp After the people
have become thoroughly familiar witt
\ the service and how to use It th'
postmaster says he will open the sub
stations about the city TO Me public
to deposit such mail
One of the things the postmaste
requests the patrons Of the postofic
20 understand is that all package
that were rated i'm the fourth clas
mail -four ounces and over must b
sent by parcel post at pound rate
while packages under four ounce
must be sent at the rate of one cen
an ounce.
Postmaster Jester said he expect
to put on extra men the first day, bu
+ not many. as he expects the incomin
mail to be light for a day or two q
least He said that after that it ma
be necessary to put on additional mel
as the mail may grow heavy by re,
son of people experimenting and tes
ing the system. After this testin
Z out is over. Mr.. Jester said the bus
> ness will then settle down and he wi
I know just what he will be require
TO do in the matter Of increasing n
{ force at the postOf1ce.
Z Postmaster Jester urges the publ
. to withhold criticism of the servi,
- at the beginning. as the system wi
be as new to the employees at Il
= postofice at it viii be to the publ
. but the service will be improved 4
/ quickly as possible.