The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-12-31
PARCELS POST IS
A SIMPLE AFFAIR
Just Like Mailing Letter or Anv
Other Packaee-The Zone sys.
tenn is Easy.

The new parcels post, effective Jan
uary /, is as simple and easy as mail
ing letter at the postofiice.
Forget the fussy talk about "zon,
systems" Take your package to the
postofiice and ask the man behind the
window "how much?" He can figure
it out in moment. Lick the stamps
stick them on and deposit your pack
age.
Unless YOU send packages frequently
and a postoffice or substation is in
convenient for you, that's all there is
to it.
Parcels post is Just new way OF
sending packages, like Christmas pres
ents for instance. 1t has three i'm,
portant new features;
l. The postage you pay depends
on the distance your package goes,
instead of the present fiat rate for
everywhere.
Exception-Packages weighing four
ounces or less are so small that they
will be sent at the old fiat rate of /
cent an ounce everywhere. Distance
makes no difference with them.
2. You can now send packages
weighing up to II pounds, instead Of
only four pounds. as at present.
3. You must use a new kind of
stamp for parcels. Ordinary letter
stamps are not good on these pack
ages, and the new parcels post stamp
are not good on other mail matter
The zone system" is easy to under
stand. Just remember that wherever
you may be, you are the center Of the
whole system! Draw around yourself
number of imaginary circles the
first one fifty miles away from you
in every direction, the second one 150
miles away, the third 300 miles away,
the fourth 600 miles away, the fifth
1000 miles, the sixth $4,000 miles and
the seventh 1900 miles.
The cost of sending a package de-
pends on two things-its weight by
pounds, and the distance it goes.
Parcels over four ounces are as
sumed TO weight pound if they
weight little over one pound they
are assumed to weigh two pounds, and
so on.
Within the first circle you drew, in
Guiding all places for so miles in
every direction, there are two rates
one for local or rural delivery and the
other for packages sent between two
towns.
If you live in city you can mail
packages to someone in the same city
or to someone on rural route start
ing out of your city, at a local rate
Of cents for one-pound package, 6 !
cents for two pounds, z cents for
pounds and so on up to Is cents for II
pounds. This rate also applies to peo-
Die living on a rural route who mail :
packages to other persons along the /
same route. or to persons in the city /
rom which the route starts, or to per
sons on some other route starting
rom the same city
NoW( suDpose the package is not +
o be delivered within the city or on
rural route, but is to go to some /,
,lace within the 50-mile radius of the /
irst zone. It's rate is one pound for ,
cents, two pounds, 8 cents; three {
IL cents; four pounds IA L
ents; and so on up to II pounds, IS
ents
Now, suppose your package is go
ng further away, outside the 15O-mile s
ircle, but inside the 300-mile circle. |
t goes into the second zone, and takes {
he rate of one pound for cents, two !
POUNDS 10 cents three pounds, l4Ii
ents; four pounds, IS cents; and so
n up to II pounds, As cents
If the place to which you wish to
end the parcel falls into the third
one, or the fourh tor fifth or other
takes the rate printed for thte zone
he one.pound rate for the third-zone ]