The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-01-06
NEW PARCEL POST RATES.
Much Heavier Packages are Allowed
in the Mails.-Service Much
Br0adened.

DEOdU6HSUs
The governments principal New
Year gift to the nation was the in
crease in the limit of parcel post
weights, from 20 to 50 pounds in the
first two zones and from II to 20
pounds in the other zones. Postmaster
General Burleson's order making
these increases issued December 6,
went into effect January /, and there
are now very few articles which can
not be sent by mail within at least
the first two zones. Under the new
arrangement a 50-pound package can
be sent $50 miles by mail for "a cents,
or slightly more than cent a pound,
and a package Of this size can be sent
for local deHyery for only 80 cents.
What the Rates Are.
The rates which went into effect
yesterday are, in brief, as follows:
First zone Qocal delivery) first
pound, ) cents; each additional two
pounds, I cent; limit, 80 pounds, 80
cents.
What the Rates Are.
The rates which went into effect
January l are, in brief, as follows:
First zone Qocal deIivery,) first
pound, 5 cents; each additional two
pounds, 1 cent; limit, so pounds, 80
cents
First zone 60 miles, first pound, 5
cents; each additional pound, / cent;
limit, so pounds, "a cents.
Second zone Q50 miles, first
pound, cents; each additional pound,
l cent; limit, so pounds, "a cents.
Third zone GOO miles, first pound,
cents; each additional pound, 2
cents; limit, 20 pounds, A cents.
Fourth zone GOO miles, first
pound, I cents; each additional pound,
4 cents; limit, 20 pounds, SO cents.
Fifth zone Q,OO0) miles, first
pound cents; each additional pound,
cents; limit 20 pounds, $122.
Sixth zone (1,4OO miles,, first
pound, 9 cents; each additional pound,
s cents. limit, 20 pounds, $161
Seventh zone, (1,SO0 mles,) first /
pound, II cents; each additional
pound, 10 cents; limit, 20 pounds, I
s2.e1.
Eighth zone (more than 1900
miles, first pound, u cents; each ad-
ditional pound, u cents; limit, 20
pounds, $240.
Home Merchants Benefit.
The new rates are believed materi-
ally to have done away with the OBJ
jections merchants in small cities
raised against the parcel post in the
beginning, that it would give the mail
order houses in New York and Chica-
go an unfair advantage
Service Greatly Broadened. !
A comparison Of this new table Of
rates with taat which went into effect
on January 1913, shows how the ser
vice has been broadened in one year,
to say nothing of tne new privileges
regarding methods of packing and
kinds of articles that may be sent
which have been granted during the
year. (
Waen the parcel post went into eff
feet a year ago it cost IS cents to send
a parcel weighing II pounds to place
$50 miles distant. Now it costs 10
cents. Besides at that time, eleven
pounds was the limit. Now it is 80
pounds.
Practically all the changes in rates
have been in favor of the short dis
tance parcels Thus, while the second
zone rate for an 11-pound parcel is
now less than one-third what it used
to be, the fifth zone rate on the same
parcel is only small percentage less,
or 6S cents as against 79 cents. The
second zone rates have been more
radically reduced than those Of any
other zone.
Another extension of the parcel post
service will go into effect on March
Is, when books will be admitted as
parcel post.