Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-01-03
MODERATE BUSINESS
FOR PARCELS POST
TWENTY EIGHT PACKAGES WE'RE
MAILED YESTERDAY. FIRST
FULL DAY AFTER NEW SYSTEM
WAS INSTLLED.
ONLY FOUR PACKAGES MAILED
IN SHORT TIME OFFICE WAS
OPEN ON NEW YEARS DAY.
NEW STAMPS RED IN COLOR.

through the BROWNSVILLE pOStOfflce yes
terday, being the first full days trial Of
the new parcels post service. The total
receipts from these packages amounted
to $40, 40 cents of which was received
from packages which had been insured
by the sender, Wednesday the postoffice
was open only an hour and half during
which time four packages were mailed;
the receipts from which amounted to 80
cents
The people, Of course, have not yet
come to fully understand the many bene
fits of the new service, and it is thought
that, in Brownsville at least, it will be
several months before the service is fully
appreciated. One instance came to the
notice Of the local Office yesterday that
goes to prove the great advantage of the
new service. a woman sent package
weighing nine pounds to Roma, the near
est railroad station to which is Sam For
dyce, thirty-five miles away. Before the
parcels post was inaugurated the pack
age would have been sent by express to
Sam Fordyce. The express Office would
have sent a card to the party to whom
the package was addressed, and they
would have had to travel or send a dis
tance of 30 miles to get the package or
a total of 20 miles, going and returning,
Insurance is one of the features of the
parcels post. A package may be insured
to its value for 10 cents. The sender is
given a receipt, a part of a Scent card.
One section is retained by the mailing
Office and one is attached to the package.
Should he desire it, the sender may re
quest the last receipt returned with the
signature of the party to whom the pack
age was addressed.
A fifteen days record of packages
mailed and sales of parcels post stamps
is being kept by the postoffiees. The re
suit of the record is to be mailed to
Washington, where the records are de
sired for the purpose of making some
appropriation for the service.
Assistant Postmaster Pierce calls the
attention of pOstOffice patrons to the fact
that packages car no longer be mailed
with ordinary postage stamps, and drop
ped in the package" receptacle at the
pOstoffice Parcels post stamps must be
obtained at the window reserved for that
purpOse-in Brownsville the registry
window-and after receipt is issued
the packages will be taken in hand by
the receiving man, who will attend to
their mailing.
Considerable trouble was caused We'd
nesday and Thursday by patrons drop
ping packages with ordinary postage
stamps in the package box. The new
service will not allow such packages to
90 through the mails They will be re
turned to the sender if the senter's name
is written Oh the package, or the adj
dressee will be notified If the addressee
is not heard from within two weeks the
package will be sent to the dead letter
Office at Washington.
Parcels post stamps are all red in
color and may be bought i'll denOmina
tions of / cent, cents 3 cents, 4 cents.
cents, 10 cents. - cents. 20 cents, %
cents 50 cents, IS cents and 81
The parcels post stamps measure TX
1-2 inches between the perforated lines
In curved panel across the top sup
ported by paneled perpendicular col
umn at each end appear the words ~.
:. Parcels Post" in Roman capital let
ters. Triangular ornaments occupy both
upper corners. while picture occupies
the center The denomination in large
numerals is in each lower corner, with
the title of the subject of the central pic
ture and the word Gents or "Dollar"
between.
The subjects of illustrations appear
ing on the several denominations are:
One cent "Postoffice clerk"
To cents. "City carrier
Three cents, Railway postal clerk.
Four cents. Rural carrier"
Five cents, Mail train"
Ten cents. steamship and mail ten
der"
Fifteen cents. "AutOmobile service"
Twenty cents. "Aeroplane carrying
mail"
Twenty five cents. Manufacturing"
Fifty cents, "Dairying"
Seventy-five cents. "Harvesting."
One dollar. "Fruit growing.
A complete supply of these stamps has
haop received 1T the brownsville post