New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-27
OBJECTS TO ZONE SYSTEM
Why Not Join Universal Parcel Posi-
Union? Correspondent Asks.

| To the Editor OF Inc iTlpuHe'
Sir: on January OF this year '"e
United States Postofiice made some M
provements in it's parcel post ser''e'
| Congress permitted this slight au'a"'e'
which at tina same time was retrosie'
| sion. in that it reintroduced the injurious
and obsolete zone system and cuiiioereu
| that with a special stamp requirement
This morning / opened the new year
edition of THE British Postal GUIDE.
On page $50 | find in the LETT outer l'ui
| gin United States Of America oiiieia,
service. All places in the United ota'es'
| CThis includes Alaska) Parcels not
ceeding three pounds. Is. Sd. GO centS'
s.ven mounds. IS. 3D. "a cents; eleven
mounds. -. ID. as cents). Our domes"'
! rates for the same parcels wouid NC ie
snectively % cents, 81 cents ana d o.
while the British parcels are coilec,eu III
Great Britain, sent across the A''""''V
and delivered anywhere III the ''''
States for less money than the A"ie'
pays for packages simply traVers'he ne
/ own country. | might add tnat =" '"e
same and the next page is PROOF '''a'
the express companies are carr!ine an
British semi-official post parcels up ~
) eleven pounds between New ho'h anu
any point i'm the Union for y cents
further find in the same guide hs'
of some go foreign and Colonial places
/ OF destination" beginning with ApEs-
! sIna and ending with Zanzibar, TO "tie"
! latter parcels are mailed up TO three
| mounds for "a cents, seven pounds lot 10
cents and eleven pounds for u cents. Inc
former has a fiat rate up to eleven pouHu'
| for As Cd Isl 0s). Other sample rates are
| TO Italy, three pounds, 81 cents seven
pounds. A. cents eleven pounds, u cents
| 10 Belgian Congo, three pounds, ~ cents
seven pounds. 81 cents; eleven pounds b.
cents: TO Bermuda, three pouhds' Il
cents: seven pounds, ~ cents eleven
! pounds, 70 cents. This last rate also APP
plies 10 British India. French India, TURK
ish Arabia. places on the Persian Huii
and the West Indies and many other 10
calities. Even with Russias vast as
| tances and sparse populations, rates are
quite moderate. To all points in Russia'
| in Europe. including Finland and trans
| Caucasia, rates are, for three pounds ID
! cents. seven pounus, 81 ''ht'' on"
eleven pounds. 81 cents; while to Russia
! i'm Asia they are only q cents hlgher'
, Tho British merchant can mail soous u
Newfoundland New Zealand, Nautilus,
Morocco. the Malay States, Gambia ana
dozens OF distant spots for three POUNDS
a cents: seven pounds. IS cents, ana ior
eleven pounds. y cents.
Tho advantages of such postal con-
! ycniences Il needs no words oil mine u
omphasizc. Why. then, instead OF nav
i,r postaI conventions with only some
| forty-elght countries, does not the un'ted
States enter into conventions with all the
world. AS do the British Postofiice ana
many others?
| WHY NOT also avoid the needless fric-
,ion of the zone system and special par
eel post stamps in our domestic man
I business and adopt n fiat rate, such as
Britain finds easily possible. even with us
many distant dependencies?
Congress. IN the Bourne bill. appears TO
have left these matters in the hands Oh
the Postmaster General and the inter-
| state Commerce Commission. II rests
with public opinion To stir these gentle
| men To action. Foreign rates are already
| i'm the care OF the Postmaster General
ana tho President
EDWARD BERWICK,
| President Postal Progress League Of Cali
| fornla.
Pacific Grove, Cal. Jan. is. 1918.