Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-02-14
HOW TO USE THE PARCEL POST
What You Can Send, How You Can
Send Il and What Il Will Cost.

It's too good to be true-that at last
the United States Is in the postal class
with Canada, Great Britain, the coun-
tries of Europe and Of South America.
the Republic of Panama, Formosa,
Kowloon, Tripoli, the Isle Of Crete, and
Jerusalem. The American people now
factory products. together with all
mail matter not embraced by law in
either the first, the second or the third
class not exceeding eleven pounds In
weight and of limited bulk, by mail
from and to any point In the United
States or Its possessions.
Parcels must be mailed at a post
office, branch postoffice, named or let
tered station, or such numbered sta
tions as may be designated by the post
master, or they may be delivered to q
rural carrier or to other carriers duly
authorized to receive such matter. AL
though the act of congress does not
specifically extend this service to star
routes, the postmaster-g general has in
c,uded this branch Of the" postal ser
vice. Parcels collected on star routes
must be deposited in the next post-of-
flee at which the carrier arrives and
postage charged at the rate from that
office.
The cost of sending parcel, depends
upon two factors-the weight and the
distance. Each postoffice In the Unit
ed States Is the center Of series Of
circles or zones; the first zone includes
territory within q radius Of 80 miles;
the second, ;150; the third, 800; the
fourth, 600; the fifth. 1000; the sixth,
1,400; the seventh. 1900; and the
eighth, all territory more than 1,S0o
miles. from the postofhce: ~.
UP: to four ounces In weight a fiat:rate
Of one cent an ounce or fraction Is
charged, regardless Of distance. Par
cells Weighing more than four ounces
and up to one pound must pay the
pound rate for the distance. g.
Within the first zone, 1t will be not
ed, there are two rates-.1ocaP' and
zone" rate. This requires explana-
ton. Parcels may be sent anywhere
within the jurisdiction Of a-single post
office, including the rural routes CEN
tering therein, at the local rate. For
example. suppose you live on rural
route. You may send butter to Gus
toner living In the city or town which
your rural route Is a feeder, or you
may send a Christmas present to q
relative who lives on another rural
route centering in the same postoff1ce,
or to q point on your own rural route,
at the local" rate Of five cents for the
first pound and one cent for each ad-
ditional pound up to eleven. This rate
also applies to the parcels which a
merchant or other city dweller may
send to the resident on a rural route
starting from the local postoffice, CT
to any point within the city delivery
service Of the postoffice. The territory
covered by the local" rate Is referred
to hereafter as local delivery.
The zone" rate applies to parcels
which do not get the local rate; that Is
for service between two postoffices or
between the rural route systems there
of-all within the first or 50-mile zone.
Here is the "cuter" in the parcel post
law If there is joker. Rural routes
for the most part center in towns and
villages-not in big cities like New
York and Chicago. Therefore, the far
mer, even though he lives within fifty
miles Of the big city, cannot send his
produce at the local rate, because his
rural route Is not q feeder for this city;
he must pay the zone rate.
First, the size: parcels within the
weight limit must not exceed seventy
two inches in combined length and
girth, and in measuring the length the