Evening star., 1913-06-22
oIorado Member of House
Saws Present System Is
Not Fair to Public.
jOULD CUT THE RATE
!. AND INCREASE LIMIT
rtiticises the Reforms Proposed by
Committee of Employees of
Postal Service.


a proposal for the complete revision OF
LIZ parcel post schedule of zones and
ties has been submitted to Postmaster
Aneral BurIeson by Representative
Neorge j. kindel of Colorado who claims
Eat the present schedules are bad. and
Rfat changes proposed by committee OF
0ost Office Department employees will only
suse confusion in the future. Mr.. Kin
Ssl claims. for his revision simplicity,
economy ard efficiency.
EANr Kindel has prepared the following
statement. regarding the parcel post sit
&tion:
Dine Of the most pressing economic
needs of our country is a scientific, impair
8al, and effective method of bringing to-
Gather the producer and the consumer,
0ye merchant and his customer. for the
Echange of their wares without the ex-
2ehsive media tion of the middle men, Of
GSrious classes, who have added So gener-
@sly to the cost of living under the old
Estem.
. Recognized the Need.
eY'he .Sixty-second Congress recognized
Us need after persistent efforts to i'm
Heses of Congress had failed. This be-
Led recognition assumed somewhat
&6de and imperfect form in the present
S1rcel post law.s This law. with the au-
tbrity granted to the Postmaster Cen
II and the interstate commerce COM
Mession to extend and improve the parcel
SpSt system. gives this country the basis
6R system of transportation for small
Eekages that should put it right up to
Xk front among the nations of the world
= the general movement to reduce the
elet of living by eliminating many of the
pensive operations between producer
I'd consumer on the one hand and be-
~en merchant and customer ON the
G1ts, adopted by the Sixty-second Con-
gress the parcell post system was in the
nature of an experiment No other coun-
-embraeipg anything like SO wide and
diversified a territory as that of the
Gnited states had ever attempted genef-
q parcel post transportation. Hence
mere &as no reliable example to follow.
Ind Congress. realizing the. ;futility OF
Adopting In the first instance, a system
hich would meet all the rednif fements,
wisely framed the law SO as to. provide
0r executive perfection of the system.
1T has now become the duty OF the
lestS Office Department. tander the present
&moefatic administration to SO inn
love this parcel post system as to fit
i& to the important function it is meant
u perform. Having been an advocate
d parcel post for many years and a
Aelong student of transportation prob
D ms. I am keenly interested. as a citi-
In. and az a member of Congress. in
Obtaining for the country the very best
adtion possible of the difhcult problems
Resented.
z Offers Substitute Plan.
Sfence I feel quite free to criticise
- &aE hx fha
ulrtment that do not appear to me to be
f6 the hest interests of the country,
Ad to offer, with no other view than
t6e good OF the public, such sugges-
t6ns as believe will improve the serv-
IL and help materially in making our
oSn parcel post system the best i'll the
N committee of employees in the Post
0hIce Department has been studying for
SGseraI weeks the various phases of the
Rrcel post problem, with view or
Recommending such changes as should be
nAde at once. This committee agrees
kbt< the rates under the present sys-
tenn as whole are too high; that the
Wright limit OF eleven pounds prohibits
tk parcel post from becoming an effect
iVF package distributing medium; and
tlRt the zones as now constituted are
u8scientific and seriously restrictive upon
tke operations -Of the parcel post Mil
IRnS OF errors ana OF
h43ng com planned of between points. For
e1ample. New York city to Rico, Col,
an eleven pound package is III cents,
while in the reverse direction it Is $1.o2.
3ut instead of attempting general
revision. of the parcel post scheme, and
&oposing improvements wherever i'm
Movements are needed, with view
thRt. all shall harmonize into an
eSbnomic simple and efficient system,
tbs committee proposes TO leave the
system it Is, with but few changes
il the first zone. The carrying out of
= Hch II design cannot fail to put up TO
t6e future the solution of problems far
Ydbre difficult and aggravating than
q pse which now confront the depart
oent
81 is proposed TO leave the weight
II nit undisturbed except in the first
1one, where 1t is proposed to increase
ito twenty pounds. 1t is proposed to
q bsolidate the local. first and second
zoOes, making a new first zone with
r&6ius of $50 miles, and To leave all
Her zones as they are. 1t is proposed
tS~.make the rates one half of l
cent per -peand plus cents in the first
zone, and TO leave the rates in other
zones unchanged.
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