Bisbee daily review., 1913-10-03
PROFITS IN PARCEL
 POST FOR UNCLE SAM
Fiscal Year May Show Sur plus of Approximately SIO,OOO,O00.

WASHINGTON. Oct 2.-The new parcel post regulations are working so well in New York City that the mails i are practically as heavy as curing the usual Christmas season. A large hu- Der of parcels are being mailed for de- livery in the first and second zones un- l der the reduced postage rates. Adver- Using matter constitutes & large part Of the increased weight of mails, but the bulk of it apparently relates to the parcel post or mail order business of department stores and merchants.
 That the parcel post will more tan pay it's owu way is beyond question, according to officials of the PostOilice department. While Postmastsr-GeL- eraI Burleson win not predict sur plus for the fiscal year. which ended June 3O other officials of the depart ment insist that there is no possible doubt on that point They go further end declare that a surplus of approXl- mateIy S1O.000, GOO is a certainty due largely to the establishment Of the parcel post
 Postmaster-General BurlesOu takes the conservative position that he wants to show a surplus that cannot be explained away by any kind of hs- urirg. He told some correspond ents he had in contemplation two further changes in the parcel post sys- tenn that would make an unusual sur plus a certainty The exact nature of these changes he would not indicate. Present surplus is made up large | Iv of ipcreased postage revenues iron: i the sale of fourth class mail matter 1 between Jan. 1 and June 30, but they ! were naid the unusual compsnsatton for carrying the regular weight oi f fourth class matter As all ioITth class matter bore parcel post stamps, 1 the railroads technically were paid for | carrying parcel post matter, but were not given an increased compensaticn on account of the larger volume ol ! business.
 After deducting the amount which the railroads were paie for car-yihe the usual volume of fourth class r'at ter and all other charges that can oI I'proparly credited to the parfel post
 a surplus Of several million dollars fe' mains. This of course will not be as large at the end of the next ilsca wear. during which the railroads vii
 he raia an additional 5 per cent toi
 carving parcels post mail and otnei
 uost mail and ether eypenScS "llt o' nIus there was a saving of Sl,9oO,00'
 3urjng the fiscal year through sending
 magayfne and periodical mail by fas Ifraigbt. Officials hope to convince con gross that the extension Of thls ser
 vice should t-e permitted. When It I made to cover the entire country, m stead of the Central and Middle West
 ern section, as at present ancther Sl' 800 .00N may be added to the ahhoa saving, T The am of the Postoficc defar' ment officials is to make tfe rarCe poSt popular system, according iayery citizen the same treatment TO
 exampie the great nail order house Of the large cities have no monopoE 'cf this system The small merchan , IIas equal rights and privileges. IT he not getting them officials here Woul
 like tn be told of that fact
 Tn New York and otheT large cue - having many outlying suburgs the par rel post is being used quite extensive - Iv for delivery purposes especiaii Y since the reduction of the local an
 first and second zone rates. oihcial believe this will prove greater ooo
 10 the small meTchants who do nc
 have extensive delivery systems F their own, rather than to great esta' e Iiebments that have every iacility c
 this kind