The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1913-01-03
lW PARCEL. POST
|. RATES ARE FIXED
Iargcs Are Regulated Under
the Zone System.
ENTERPRISE LAUNCHED
eyea Pounds Is the Limit In
Weight fer a Single Package
Anything That WIN Not In.
jure Other Mail Can
BE Sent.
sy EDWARD @. CLARK.

III i,h the coming OF the New Year
)e United States government will en-
b into a now field Of enterprise
y ;r5nsmittal OF merchandise BIZ
D. - known az tho parcel post
b. yea-s there has been demand
p such q system OF Inexpensive
Pus Initial OF packages. Tho camps
.avor and disfavor OF the parcel
D. scheme have been about equally
T.acd. Finally at the last session
Congress- bill was passed which
r. put the plan into operation, but
hIy Z must be said In little more
lan IN experimental way.
u - Tho intention al Uncle Sam 20
lo'o rather slowly IA the parcel post
Ia,tcr He wants to find how popr.
y j will be, how much II will cost
le government. and whether there IA
be- a profit or less at the end o.
ich ycar. II II is found that the
ian IA successful from the point Of
lew of the people. which means tho
'''rnment also. the parcel post will
extended until finally 1t reaches
e proportions which its proponents
y they believe II Is destined TO as.
Inc.
Zone System Explained.
y Is no excggeration 10 say that
ousands upon thousands OF inquir.
$ have been made OF the postmaster
neral as TO just what the parcel
's' will mean to the people. II was
Q law OF congress establishing the
stem which made provision for
vision Of the country into zones
u Into 35. 900 units which are 20 BE-
oG rs conters IN describing tho cir.
rs which mark the boundaries OF
" 1c"cS. There has been no clear
dor landing, apparently. OF this
'r system. but really II ia very
Mr'e matter.
.' accompanying map shows the
aHtry divided into zones from the
y. n which Washington Is sit
yea, IS tho center. Accomnan%inS
q nap Is table showing tho ra;c
pos iagc per pound for parcels from
arlington to places within al the
ros
zach unit contains an area thirty
''' square Now each unit Is 4
Nor from which the zones arc
'"n and so every Unit IN the coun
no matter where It is situated VIII
20 zones drawn from Il just exactly
Nashington has them drawn from
FOR instance. take KookuE, Ia
p is in a unit Ia the fifth zone
ON that will be drawn circles ~
NY - they are drawn from Wash.
ION md they will be numbered from
'kaI as number one. inst as they
numbered from Washington as
bber one. or course. however
70 Six will have different Geo
E'iical position as related To Kco'
Than IL has MS related 20 Wash
.'o1, but as the radius OF the circles
"1 from Keokuk IS the same
~ as the radius OF the circles
% from Washington. Kcokuks
Six will DO just rs far from its
as Washirgton's Zone Six is
How Rates Are Fixed
cen DO seen from this readily
l'1 that the postal rates from
t.ng'cn to its particular zone VIII .
'N same as tho postal rates from
...; to it's particular zones Each .
p lng about thirty miles square .
~ course contain In mcGt eases .
..'r Of pcstoflceg. but each oi'ce .
.'' zane unit is considered as De-
'le center OF the circles from
ivl the zones arc drawn. the /
- OF postage arc fixed from the
1 IN which the sending postoiHce IS I
'a'ed, but the price to every place /
any zone is Just the same. To IL
rate. 10 will cost exactly the Same |
cunt 10 send n parcel from WASH
'nn TO Erie. Pa. that II costs 10 !
= II to Atlanta. Ca, because ERE
Atlanta with reference to WASH
'oa ara situated In tho fourth