The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-24
ADAMS EXPRESS
COMPANY and
PARCEL POST
lOCa' Officials Of Company
Tell of Increase In
Business
Government Enterprise Acting
AS StimuIant Increase In
Efficiency

Contrary to the general belief that
the inauguration of the parcel post
system will tend to diminish the vol
1inae of business done by express COM
panies throughout the United States,
it is said officially at the Adams ex-
press office here that actually the op-
GRAFTON of the new government ser
vice has acted as a stimulant to the
express business and opened new
fields which had heretofore been unde-
IN Bridgeport alone it has had the
effect to require added equipment not
alone in the office but in the delivery
creased by several teams with the pos
sfbIe addition of more motor-drlven
vehicles in the near future
In an interview yesterday with a
reporter for the Farmer Agent r.
Driver, corroborated by local cashier
Morris F. Winton, said: Since Nov
parcel post system began to be felt
In express circles, there has been a
general tendency towards increase IN
the amount of business done.
TITS effect has been peculiar in many
respects, but one Of the most notice.
able is that observed in the financial
department where the demand for q
convenient form in which to send
money from one city to another, and
in fact abroad, has caused the Adams
Express Co, not only to follow the
OE6G6QeHI
portation companies. but in the case
OF Bridgeport to establish "a s1b-sta-
tioT1s in various sections of the city,
where such drafts can be purcha sed.
Before the parcel post system be-
came a fact there was but little de-
11and for such means Of money trans
mission here, but since that time the
demand has been great. This may be
ascribed to the host of small mall
order houses which have come into be-
ing With the new system Tneir lit
States, and has created business
heretofore unknown. much of which
IL transported by the express com
panfes.
~As the 1ngersoI watch was first
looked upon as a serious competitor OF
tsae more expensive tfme-pfece, but in
costly mechanism. so viii the parcel
post system, In my opinion, increase
the volume of express business, rather
than diminish IT."
II not It has had a stimulating ef-
feet upon the personnel of the parcel
carrying organizations. making them
more active in collection and deliveries
and insuring a maximum service. TAX
ing Bridgeport as an example Mr..
Driver said that the Adams Express
company began systematiz1ng its col
lectfons and deliveries shortly before
Christmas, with the result that many
innovations have resulted.
Principal among these may be mem
toned the fact that in the usiness
district, driver may now deliver a
dozen packages. and without holding
MP the next patrons delivery by wait
ing for settlement at the office of the
first leaves an exact duplicate check
ing-eheet upon which payment is later
secured.
Where merchants were heretofore
compelled to await the pleasure Of the
collecting driver, specified times of
call are now adhered to, and it Is
said that drivers are more alert, rea-
LIKING that delay means loss of busi-
ness in favor of the parcel post
Tt was said by Cashier Winton that
thousands upon thousands of dollars
are weekly exchanged in Bridgeport
through the new money order, trav-
eIlers' check and foreign draft system,
which has been forced upon the COM
pany by the parcel post act, this means
of sending money being greatly IA
vored by the mail order houses Many
foreigners in Bridgeport send month
1y drafts to their homes abroad, and
under the new form of draft which
allows the transmission of 800 to any
country in the world at q nominal cost
of 80 cents, it will readily be seen why
this method has come into favor