Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23

A grocery delivery, by the way, is an order of less than 100 pounds to one address, in one. two or three baskets.
 City Divided Into Routes.
 All coupons. or rather tags, are sold for cash and in lots up toS10O. 200, 800, I ,000 and 1000. In using these tags, tine merchant uses one tag for each order (delivery to one addressl fll- ing in not only the name and address of the customer, but also the number O. the route. The entire city is di- yided into 16 routes and each mer- chant has a route book, printed and alphabetically arranged as to streets, SC that the route number of any ad- dress is instantly in the index, all though of course. the merchants and their clerks are very familiar with the routes now and are seldom obliged to refer to their book Each merchant, also stamps his coupons with his firm stamp, so the tag (coupon) tells the wkole story on it's face. it's price, the firm. the customer and address, and the route number.
 In the morning the drivers report al the central station. at Sis and start 1! out with their wagons. Each driver has certain stores to which he deliv- CTS the 'empties" leach merchant pro- vides his own baskets or boxes, marked with his name and from these same merchants he collects the orders to be delivered, returning to the cen- | tTal station with them. The wagons are then backed up to a long bench. or shelf, running down the center of the station, and the baskets and boxes are Gnloaded and showed along according to the route numbers on the tag. thus | 9 fri b11TT Ti11or @o wagons in a very few moments. The drivers are then ready to start out on the first morning delivery. As the driver delivers, he takes the tag off the order and these tags are turned
 ill at the office. tied and stacked in each merchants name and held for a time for reference in case of com
 rlaints. or checking up, etc.
 Bringing Back the Empties.
 In coming back to the central sta tion after delivering. each wagon stops at certain stores most convenien. te his line of travel, leaves whatever
 "empties" he may have beionging to
 those particular stores, collects the 1 orders that are ready, and brings them
 to the central station. Each mer-
 chant gets back all of his ''elnpties'
 at noon and in the morning. T or '. U. U. OrderS, envelopes arg
 furnished instead of coupons and fol
 these merchants pay IS cent more
 than the straight delivery tag. All the
 drivers are under bond, and the col.
 lections are quite a service. C. o. D
 orders run from 200 to 300 a day. set.
 dement's being made with the mer. ! chants each day. Each driver has ;
 collection book and the system fol l checking up the items and ca sh is en.
 tirely adequate.
 ii Deliver to the Merchants. }, Provision is also made for deliver ing eonsisnments to the merchant from out of town shippers. For in stance, candy manufacturer or job 7 ber will consign a shipment to tn : company to be delivered to twent,
 merchants at a charge of perhaps , cents each, or S2 for the consign1nent } Such items bring in a matter of $50 , month to the company and are easil s handled, the same as returning emp l ties" to the merchant
 Another source of revenue is tn r service for package delivery for citi zens who phone in for a wagon t s take. a bundle to the washwoman, o f any service of special nature I : 1913 the sum of $1,32e76 was real . ized from these phone calls
 r' As before stated. there are IS route l. but the company has 20 wagons an