Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
Parcel Post Service
Is Still Increasing.

post helps you?
That is a question one hears asked
| along the street, nowadays. and il
| one may judge from the quantity of
| parcel post mail at the postoffice the
| question is being answered with an
| emphatic Yes"
AS yet the trade which this will
| open up between city. and country is
apparently not understood. Few of
| those living along the rural routes are
| taking advantage of the fact THAI
they may wrap a six-pound chicken
in stout paper and mail it for 10 cents
| To any patron of the office to which
their rural route runs. General opin
ion is however, that it will not be long
before such parcels will rapidly null
tiply in number.
One enterprising farmer living in
Manchester supplies his sons in Bos-
ton with fresh eggs, each week, by
parcel post to the mutual advantage
of all parties concerned.
1t is interesting to look over the
parcels received at the local office
One finds boxes of clothing. furs,
shoes, medicines, ct cetera, showing
that people all over the country are
waking up to the advantages afforded
by the new law
Those who have studied the law be-
lleVe that one of its chief advantages
are the facilities afforded under the
low rates of the local zone, especially
the local rate of five cents for the
first pound ana one cent for each ad
ditional pound up to eleven pounds.
which may be delivered from the office
where mailed by city or rural carriers
for Is cents
As yet no small compendium of the
zones for general use has been com
piled but the public seem to be rap
idly learning that Boston and imme-
diately surrounding places, as the
Newtons, Cambridge Hyde Park,
Medford, Maiden, the Dorchesters.
Dedham, Brockton.s Chelsea, and of
course Lynn and places this side are
in the second zone from Augusta. as
also are Haverhill. Lawrence, Lowell
and all of the state of New Hamp-
shire.
New York city and the greater part
| of that state are in the fourth zone
from Augusta All but the extreme
| southwestern end of Long Island,
| however, Is in the third zone, inelud-
ing Brooklyn. The cities of Albany
and Poughkeepsie are in the third
zone. Syracuse. Rochester and Buff
falo are in the fourth Cleveland and
nearly all of Ohio are in the fifth, like
wise Cincinnati, Chicago and Milwau-
kee. st. Louis and Minneapolis are
in the sixth zone. New Orleans is il,
/ the seventh. All of the states of Con-
L nactlGff phnAa ISla IT,. ~.
| third zone and the cities of Philadel-
/ phia, Baltimore and Washington are
| IN the fourth
/ Notwithstanding all of New Hamp
! shire is included in the second zone
from Augusta, the extreme northern
part of Maine extends out into the
third zone. Houlton, FIT. F'airfield
Caribou, Presque Isle and Ashland are
IN the third zone and of course al
points IN the State north of those
places.
| Bangor, Calais. Castine, PASSPORT
Ellsworth and Mt. Desert are lin The
second zone ~ sb.
Included in the first zone from Au.
gusta are Pittsfseld, Skowhegan, Nortf
Anson, st. Adams, Belfast, Damaris.
Gotta, Bath, Rockland, Portland or
orchard, Auburn and Lewiston, Tt
any of the abovc mentioned places il
the first zone an eleven pound pack.
age may be sent for the small sun
OF thirty-flve cents and u three pouny
package for instance, would be onli
Il eleven cents.
t All of the state of New Jersey, Del
! aware and Maryland are IN the fourth
zone; Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri ami
Z Alabama in the sixth zone. 1t ma,
! also be of help to remember that al
OF the states of Arizona, California
Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Idaho
Utah and Washington are in tn
eighth.