The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-01-11
Will Be Great Thing for thI
Farmers of Lancaster and .
kerShaw Counties. &.'
WILL RUN ON SCHEDULEs
All Kinds of Mail Will Be Han,
died But Chief Object in Wee
is the Carrying of Pare
Post.

The plan of the postoffce depart
ment to establish truck-line mail ID
cilities is rapidly taking shape and 1t
is expected that the line from Char
lotte to Camden will be in operation;
soon after the first Of the cominx
month. Postmaster Weddington,
of Charlotte, has been requested ~.
the department to secure bids on
the operation of two routes from
Charlotte and will receive the same
between January II and FebruarJ
L. the contracts to run until Jund
30, 1920. This would indicate the,
departments plan to put the routeS|
in operation as soon as practicabld
after February l, provided, of
course, that satisfactory bids are rel
ceived.
The two routes under considerai
tion from Charlotte is believed u
be beginning of such a seryid
over the entire United States. The
will be served by automobile-trucA
on fixed schedules and will dinel
substantially from the present rur&i
free delivery system. One of TIL
routes out of Charlotte, the Obl
server says, will extend from Wiul
ton-Salem, through MocksyiIi{.
Statesville, Barium Springs. Trouis
man, Oswalt, Mooresville, Nd
Mourne. Davidson, Cornelius ana
Huntersville to Charlotte a distanca
of 9S,7 miles. This route is to id
served in both directions six days
each week, there being no service n
Sunday Va
The other route extends frd
Charlotte through Pinevilie, N. Il
Lancaster, Pleasant Hill, -Hes3s1
Springs, Kershaw and Kalb to cal
den, S. c., distance ofSS7 mill
each way each OF the six work.
days Of the week.
On these lines the carriers FL
the want of a better designatid
VIII perform practically all the fud
tions of a United States postoff
with the single exception of the
suing of postal money orders. h
In this connection he VIII be auth{
ized to accept and give receipts
applications for such money ordd
and to accept money for money a 7
ders to be issued at regular ofic}
These carriers will deliver md
or all sorts and descriptions to II
boxes. and make collections frd
such boxes along the line of h
route, and will accept mail matt
Tor registration and will accept @par-
Gel post mail matter notEJn1y of the
regular sort. but will handle insur-
ance on such mail matter and VIII
accept such when it is to be SEM
&C. o. D."
Three automobile trucks will 10
required for each of these routes
Two will be in daily service. thH
routes starting from each terminu5
in the morning, and arriving at the
other end of the route in the earfp
afternoon. The third truck on each
route will be maintained for emer-
gencies. The Charlotte-Winsto1
route will start at O'Clock. fror6
each city, arriving at the other en6
at o'clock in the afternoon. on
the Charlotte-Camden route the
truck will leave Charlotte I $50
in the morning and will leaS> Vam
den at 8 a. m. reaching Chah NJ
at p. m. The southbound trin
will reach Camden at 1880 p. M,
cording to the schedule laid ont 4
the beginning of this service.
THE essential feature of this sei
vice." says the statement from TIL
office of the fourth assistant post
master general, will be tha collec>
ton and delivery of parcel bost. bui
IL the handling of any matter can bf
materially expedited by dispatchiny
1t on the truck, ii may be SO dis
natched. While 1t Is proposed 4!
pick up mail along the route wher>
ever offered, in order that the ser
vice may be successfully operated (
is essential that rapid schedule
adhered to, and this would be
possible II any prolonged stops q
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