The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-09
PARCELS POST
MAPS RECEIVED
LOCAL OFFICE HAS RECEIVED
THE OFFICIAL MAPS EXPLAIN
ING PARCELS POST SYSTEM
SUPPLIES SENT FROM FARGO
TO SEVERAL STATES.

The postofice in this city has re-
ceived the first of the parcels pos
maps especially printed for this office
Fargo is in the 3,005 unit, which il
practically thirty miles square and ex.
tends fifteen miles into Minnesota and
the same distance west in North Da-
kota. There is no special rate for the
unit, and the unit system has simply
been adopted in order to make II
easier to compute the rates from one
part OF the country to another.
This unit system commences with
the most eastern postoffices on the is
lands in the Atlantic ocean off the
coast Of Maine, and every thirty min
utes Of longitude is divided into fifty
units, north and south. The first num-
bers commence at the north and ex-
Etending to the south. The highest
number of units is 5,813 on the vest
ern coast of Oregon, and Key West
islands off the southern coast of Flor
ida come up to the ninety-ninth num-
bers, being 1,499 and 1859.
The charges are made by the zone,
which have already been fully de-
scribed. The first zone for the Fargo
unit will extend in all directions from
this city, which will include some of
Minnesota, as well as North Dakota,
The next zone is 300 miles across or
$50 miles in ali. directions from Fargo,
W AA44O AAkI AAA D1AS ANSAA0 49,
miles from Fargo, and the fourth zone
500, fifth zone 1000 miles, the sixth
zone 1,400 miles, and the seventh
zone 1900 miles. This latter o
embraces all of the United States,
even including the islands Of Flor
ida, and outside of this Zon there is
"a fiat rate, which includes Alaska in
the operation of this new law.
These maps of the Fargo zone win
be for sale about Jan. /, but 1T 1T not
known yet what the price will be
made. Special applications have al
ready been filed by local parties who
desire the map for their offices, as
oon as they can be obtained.
The department is very busy just at
present in sending out the necessary
supplies, and making the arrangements
to properly handle this business. The
Fargo office last Saturday sent out
eleven mail sacks full of maps for
Washington, Oregon and Montana, and
each n of these maps has to be spec
cially printed with the postoffice to
which it is sent located in the center
of its one In addition to these maps
the Fargo Office received by freight
$40 sets of large scales to furnish to
such offices as do not now have the
facilities for weighing the necessary
eleven pounds required by this law.
The regulations specially prepared
to carry this law into effect, have not
yet been generally promulgated, but
will probably be received in the course
of a few days, and the same is true
of the chart to go with the maps.
The department at Washington is
leaving much to the discretion and
good judgment of the local postmast-
ers, especially those at first class Of
fees, as to the letails of carrying this
new law into effect, and providing
such facilities as the public ma re-
quire. 1t therefore will be necessary
for the business men generally, to
consult their local officials and get
all the information possible, as to the
extent to which they will probably
avail themselves Of the privileges of
this new law; il they wish to have
proper facilities afforded for the rap
idly and Economic handling of this
business. Z