The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-14
Chief Clerks Authorized to Hire Ad-
ditional Help to Care for Ex-
pected Increase In Traffic.
FARM AND FACTORY PRODUCTS
Ar to be Carried by Uncle Sam IN
der New Law-Special Stamps
Must be Used.

Albert Worth, assistant postmaster
of Bemidji, has received one of the
first parcels post maps to be issued by
the government. The guide which
accompanies the map has not yet been
received but is expected every day.
The Bemidji postofice has received
authority to hire extra equipment
and carriers as necessary to provide
for the increase in business expected
after January 1 when the new parcel
post law becomes operative.
The map shows every parcels post
unit in the country and each is num-
bered. In order to find the rate to
any particular city in. the country,
the guide is consulted to find the
number of the unit. AS the units
+ numbered consecutively east to
west and north to- south, it is the
zone any unit lies as the zones are
traced out in red ink. Any zone cut
by a red ink line is considered as
having the rate of the lower n
Regulations to cover the workings
of the new parcels post system were
made public by Postmaster General
Hitchcock today.
The system will be effective
throughout the entire postal service
at the same time and will affect
every p%ostofice, city, rural and rail-
way mail transportation rout in the
country.
Every precaution will be taken by
the p%ostofice department to have the
mails moved with the usual dispatch,
and all postmasters, superintendent
and inspectors have been directed to
thoroughly familiarize themselves
and subordinates with every phase
of the new system.
Mr. Hitchcock today expressed the
hope that the public would familiar
1ze itself with the nature of the new
service before attempting to use it.
Information will be available at any
postofice in the country in a few
days.
The regulations provide that par
cels of merchandise, including farm
and factory products, but not books
and printed matter, of almost every
description under eleven pounds in
weight and measuring as much as six
feet in length and girth combined,
except calculated to do injury to the
mails in transit, may be mailed at
any postofice for delivery to any ad-
dress in the country. The delivery
will be made to the homes of people
living in rural or star routes as well
as those living in cities and towns
where there is a delivery by carrier.
Where there is at present no de-
livery carrier the parcels will go to
the postofice as is in the case with
ordinary mail. .
The postage rate for the first zone
within distances not exceeding
fifty miles-will be five cents for the
first pound and three cents for each
additional pound. The rates increase
for each successive eight zones into
which the country is divided, the
maxium rate being twelve cents a
pound, which will carry a parcel
across the continent or even to Alas
ka and the Philippines.
For a fee of ten cents a parcel may
be insured and if the parcel is lost
in the mails indemnity to the amount
of the value, not to exceed fifty dol
lars will be paid to the sender
The law provides for the use of
distinctive postage stamps and these
now are being distributed to post
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