Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-15
PARCEL POST TO CHINA
By FREDERIo =. HAsXn.

VXTAsHINGToN, Aug. lift you want to travel ELL, IN
NJ China and ge the of od-time local color
w and quaint customs the time for your voyage
is growing short. L you delay, you may ind the
Chinese coolie dressed the latest American-made
hand-me-downs, his shaggy ponies harnessed with
American harness his matched hut papered with the
last design in wall paper and adorned with chromos
and Autographs struck off in u. S. A We have just
put into parcel post agreement with the Chinese
republic Four hundred million people added to the
mail order market of the United States Anything tnat
can be put eeven-pound packages be shipped to
any part of China for IL cents a pound
This is likely o prove important step for both
countries in many For China it means that she
is able to trade worlds biggest mail order mar
ket under conditions practically favorable as those
of American citizens living For the
United States it chance to attack the Chinese
market problem from angle China is recognized
greatest market in the world in many ways The
field is practically undeveloped The country is densely
populated and by means poor. The people are not
manufacturing people; they typical buying nation
They just beginning to ask for the products of
western manufacture. 1t has long been clear tnat
China represents a good American opportunity.
The chief drawback the uncertainty of
local conditions. Americans have been slow to put
their money in China outside few big treaty ports,
because disturbance of sort another was
always likely arise which would heavy loss.
But If the Chinese market can by mail any
great extent with stock and plant safe American
SOIL and no necessary China except catalogue
printed Chinese, there would to be chance for
the enterprsing exporter.
An immense number of small articles both cheap
and expensive be ordered and shipped outright
under the eleven-pound limit system. Mr. r. L.
superintendent of foreign mails, believes
that important results of the parcel
will in the long be indirect rather than
direct convention gives American goods a chance
to establish themselves in popular favor in China
Every with the Made in U. S. A stamp that is
ordered fair price, that is to catalogue descrip
ton and satisfactory quality, strong adver-
all And wild
advertisement among the is what goods of
any nation needs before they take real hold in
foreign country
After any given American firm rendered salts
service with the class of goods that shipped
parcel post packages, it has certain right to look
for mail orders of larger sort that will be shipped
freight. Nowadays everything from a fish hook to
al automobile portable house be bought by
mail; and just under such as prevail
China the local dealer who carries automobiles
or portable houses in stock is conspicuous by his
absence, that the mail order catalogue element
course, there always the possibility selling
freight But shipping cheap tres by freight hardly
practicable, and it is from just such small beginnings
confidence and larger. orders grow. The
convention gives America chance to sell a large
a foundation important commercial structure may
built
1t will come as something of a surprise to many
people that the postoce system China sufficiently
efficient and we'll organized to handle countrywide
marcel post fact, there considerable
and populous Chinese districts untapped by railroad
lines but the of rivers in the Flowery King
dom gives excellent basis for communication, and
one that is literally Of The Importance of
water routes China is shown by the article in the
convention which provides for the present parcels
destined points which not reached by
must not be over one cubit foot in volume