Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-09
rate rate

/ % miles ...... IL ~
! $50 miles % 35
/ 300 miles . .27 .45
| 500 miles ----. .32 so
| 1,00o miles " 81 30
400 miles " As rs
1,Soo miles -.-....... 81 IS
Over l 800 miles . 90 so
The easiest and cheapest way to get
fresh country eggs and butter after
January next, will be to order them
direct from some rural route farmer
and have him mail them to you by
the new parcels post. a dozen eggs
weight about a pound. The postage
on dozen eggs of that weight, or
pound of butter to Osborne from any
point on any rural route radiating
from Osborne will be five cents. For
each additional pound up 20 eleven
pounds. the postage will be one cent,
and 11-pound package will require
fifteen cents postage.
Eleven pounds is the maximum
weight of package that can be sent
by the new parcels post.
If the eggs or butter. are mailed
from point beyond the rural route
delivery from Osborne, but within a
radius of fifty miles, the postage will
be five cents for the first pound: three
cents for each additional pound and
thirty-tive cents for package weigh
ing eleven pounds. Postage increases
slightly with the distance Thus. in
zone between a circle of a 5O-mile
and 150-mile radius of Osborne the
postage will be six cents for one
pound, four cents for each additional
pound and forty six cents for an ii
pound parcel. In the zone between
the $50 mile and 300 mile circle the
postage will be seven cents for one
pound and five cents for each addi-
tional pound. So, if you happen to
know farmer or chicken breeder
who lives upon rural delivery route
out of Osborne you may have him
mail you eleven dozen eggs or eleven
pounds of butter at cost in postage
of only fifteen cents.
But it is not only eggs and butter
that will go by mail under the new
parcels post If you want jar of
preserves, or honey, or a pair of
chickens, or anything else that
weighs no more than eleven pounds
1T may go by parcels post 1t is likely
that under the new parcels post a
great business of shipping direct from |
the farm the consumer in the CITY |
will be carried on systematically. ItI
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in Germany, where they have had the |
parcels post for years. In England |
such odd things as weasels, young al
ligators, leeches, lizards, living
and poultry, mice, cats and |
dogs have been sent by parcels post.
The shipment of eggs by parcels
post in Englandis carried on so ex-
tensively that in the postoffice in the
large cities special departments have
been assigned to it, In England many
farmers put small advertisements in
the city papers offering to ship eggs.
honey, butter and preserved fruit and
Jams by mail. The city man simply
writes a letter ordering what he
wants and inclosing the price and the
postage, and the next day the post
man dIiIvers the goods to him The
in eggs in England is ex-
small. The government sends
'ut printed instructions how to pack
hem and pasteboard boxes made af-
er those regulations are sold eyery-
where A result of the egg and but
er trade by mail in England and Ger
many IS that the profit of the produce
lealer, grocer and other middlemen
scut out and the farmer gets a little
more for his goods than he would in
he market, and the consumer gets
hem for much less. A London paper
I recent date told how, when eggs
Fere selling in the london market
or twenty-five cents dozen consum-i !
rs were getting them by mail for 7
wenty cents.
The Postal Department is working f