Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-30
ABOUT PARCELS POST
Much Information Regarding the
Provisions of New Method of
Handling Merchandise Mail.


States. To accommodate this ex.
pected increase of business in the
postoffice department it will be nee
essary to employ great number OF
extra clerks. Postmaster Casey has
! been directed to add one extra clerk
to his force to meet the expected in
crease of business.
For the first fifteen days in Janu-
airy a record is required to be kept
of the number of packages received
and dispatched. Every package of
merchandise received for transporta-
tion by the postoffice department
after the first of January must bear
parcels post stamps. 1t will be a
waste of money to put on stamps
which are in use now as the pack
ages to which they are attached will
be held for postage.
There is a chance that merchants
who may have on hand stamps of a
larger denomination than those re-
quired for letter postage will stand
to lose as such stamps will be abso-
lutely worthless for other purposes
than letter postage after the first of
January. The exchange of these
stamps for parcels post stamps is
forbidden by the postoffice depart
ment.
The parcels post bill carried with
it an appropriation of 100000 for
vehicle hire necessary in delivering
packages in free delivery offices, but
as there are 1900 of these in the
United States graduated in volume
of business from New York city, the
largest, to the great number of
smaller ones, it necessarily follows
that the lesser of the free delivery
offices will have but little money to
expend for vehicle hire. Ashland S
allotment is 500.
No packages will be received for
mailing under the parcels post regu-
lations which weighs more than IL
pounds, and in size they must not
exceed 70 inches in both length and
girth combined.
Postmaster Casey has issued the
following instructions to the public
in rnoorH fn Tho nornn1c
law which goes into effect next
month:
l. Parcels cannot be mailed in
! package boxes; must be brought to
| the postoffice or designated postal
station.
2. Rates of postage on packages
weighing not more than four ounces
are the same as at present. Pack
ages weighing more than four ounces
take new post pound rates, which
are arranged according to distance
carried.
8. Distinctive parcel post stamps
must be used, and packages mailed
with ordinary postage stamps will be
! treated as unavailable. The parcel
post stamps will not be good for
postage on other classes of mail mat
! ter.
4. Sender's name and address
must appear on all packages. Post
masters are directed, to treat as un-
mailable parcels presented for mail
ing on which this information is not
clearly shown.
5. Seeds, cuttings, bulbs, scions,
plants, etc, are mailable only at the
rate of l cent for each two ounces.
Weight limit is increased to II
pounds. Special parcel post stamps
must be used.
6. Printed matter, books, etc,
are not mailable under new parcel
post regulations. but must go as
third class matter at present rate OF
cent for each two ounces or frac-
tion, without regard to distance.
Parcel post stamps not good for
postage on this class of matter.
Z. Unmailable: Live animals,
live poultry, spirituous, vinous and
malt liquors, explosives, articles liza
BILE to injure the mails or persons
| handling same.
s. Liquids other than those shown
| in paragraph as unmailable may
be accepted for local delivery only
when it is unnecessary to transport
them over steam or electric rail-
ways. Liquids may be sent to any
! destination when mailed in glass
bottles containing not more than IL
ounces, such bottles to be encased
| in block or tube surrounded with
sufficient absorbent material to take
up the contents of thebottle if brok-
en-.
9. Insured: Parcels may be in
sured up to $50 in value for fee OF
10 cents.
10. Registry abolished: 1t viii
not be possible to register merchan'
disc parcels under the new regula
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