Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-12-31
PARCELS POST IS
A SIMPLE AFFAIR
JUST LIKE MAILING \ LETTER
OR ANY OTHER
PACKAGE.
THE Zone SYSTEM IS EASY
Postage Depends ON the Weight of
the Package and the Dis
tanCc IL Goes.

The new parcels post, effective Jan.
l, is as simple and easy as mailing
letter at the postoffice
Forget the fussy talk about zone
systems" Take your package 10 the
postoffice 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 package.
Unless you send packages frequent
ly nd postoffice or substatlon is in
convenient FOR you, that's all there is
to II.
Parcels post is just a new way of
sending packages. like Christmas
presents for instance. 1t has three
important new features
l. The postage you pay depends
on the distance your package goes,
instead of the present flat + ate for
everywhere.
Exception Packages weighing
four ounces or less are so small that
they will be sent at the old flat rate
OF / cent an ounce everywhere, Dis
tance makes no difference with them
2. You can now send packages
Weighing up to IL pounds. instead OF
only four pounds. as at present
g. You m ust 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 your
self a number OF imaginary circles
the first one fifty miles away from
you in every direction. the second one
$50 miles away the third 800 miles
fifth. 1000 miles, the sixth 400 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 weigh pound IL they
weigh a little over one pound they
are assumed to weigh two pounds.
and so on.
Within the first circle you drew
including all places for 50 miles in
every direction, there are two rates,
one for local or rural delivery ana
the other for packages sent between
two towns,
If you live in a city you can mail
packages to someone in the same city
or to someone on n rural route start
ing out Of your city. at a local rate
of cents for one-pound package,
6 cents for two pounds, cents for
3 pounds and so on up to Is cents
for II pounds. This rate also applies
to people living on a rural route who
mail ackages to other persons along
the same route, or to persons in the
city from which the route starts, or
to persons on some other route start
ing from the same city.
Now, suppose the package is not
to be delivered within the city or on
a rural route, but is to go to some
place within the 5O-mile radius Of
the first zone. Its rate is one pound
for cents, two pounds. cents;
three pounds, II cents; four pounds
II cents and SO on up 10 IL pounds,
}5 cents
Now, oppose your package Is go
Ing further away, outside the $50
mile circle, but inside the 3OO-mlle
circle. II goes into the second zone.
and takes the rate Of one pound for
cents. two pounds 10 cents. three |
pounds, IA cents. four pounds. IS /
,ents; and so on up to II pounds. 40 |
'ents.
II the place to which you wish to
send the parcel falls into the thiro !
zone. or the fourth or fifth or other |
t takes the rate printed for that zone
rhe o ne-pound rate for the third
zone is cents; for the fourth zone.