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

u III the coming of the New Year
United States government will en-
into n now field OF enterprise
;ansmittal OF merchandise By
D. ~ known az the parcel post.
lars there has been 4 demand
such a system Of Inexpensive
j. i,tai OF packages. Tho camps
.aror and disfavor OF the parcel
r. scheme have been about equally
E..cd Finally at the last session
craSrcss n bill was passed which
put the plan into operation. but
D. = must be said IN little more
a. ~ experimental way.
. Tho intention al Uncle Sam 10
'Pyo rather slowly IA the parcel post
R'ior He wants TO ind how popG.
p J, will be. how much Il will cost
n government, and whether there is
be profit or loss at the end OF
fch ycar. II It is found that the
|an ia successful from the point OF
Few of the people. which means tho
P''rnment also. the parcel post will
p extended until finally It reaches
r. proportions which its proponents
p they believe II Is destined TO as.
bmc
Zone System Explained.
u Is no excggeration TO say that
pousands upon thousands OF inquir.
ls have been made OF the postmaster
fHoraI as TO Just what the parcel
ps' will mean to the people. II was
D. law Of congress establishing the
stem which made provision for
p sion Of the country into zones
% Into $4,000 units which are 10 b.
f6d MS ccnters IN describing tho cir.
I's which mark the boundaries OF
D" zones. There has been no clear
landing. apparently. OF this
ystem. but really II IL a very
I"'.e matter.
&c. accompanying map shows the
oaAEry divided into zones from the
p. N which Washington Is sit.
a''d, as tho center. AccomDan"inE
D nap Is table showing the rae
Pc tagc per pound for parcels from
'a'H.ng;on TO places within al the
'rCa
.ach unit contains an area thirty
''. square. Now each unit IS 4
.'"r from which the zones are
@"a and so every urit IN the coun
no matter where It is situated viii
aye zones drawn from It just exactly
"ashington has thcm drawn from
Tor instance. take KoolGS In,
2 Is In unit Ia tho nth yorc.
rom ;hGt will be drawn circles ~
wy - they are drawn from Wash
.'aA md they will be numbered from
'Eak as number one. Just rs they
aumbcred from Washington as
'"h'r one. or course. however,
'' Six viii have n different Geo
Ih'cal position rs related to Kco.
han IL has MS related 20 Wash
on but as the radius OF the circles
from Eeokuk 20 the same
l1 rs the radius or the circles
rom washington, NcOhh"
Six win be just rs far from its
as Washir gton's Zone Six is
How Rates Are Fixed
r4n DO seen from this readily
that tho postal rates from
.nr'cn to its particular zone VII.
E same as tho postal rates from
T; to It's particular zones Each f.
'a.ng about thirty miles square
~ course contain in mcat cases
'r 81 pcstoflces, but each Office
We rHne unit is considered rs he-
'An center of the circles from
'y4 Cha zones arc drawn. The
- OF postage arc fixed from the /,
l' IN which the sending pcstof'ce IS
1a'ed, but the price TO every place /
my zone is Just the same. To IL
rate. II will cost exactly tho samo !
cunt 10 send a parcel from WASH
ION TO Erie. Pa. that II costs 10
10 II to Atlanta. Ga. because ERE
y Atlanta with reference to wash
''oa are situated In tho fourth