The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-19
GOOD DEMAND FOR
| PARCEL POST FOOD
Over $500 Received First
Day at BrattlebOrO
POstOffice
OFFICE PROVIDES
ORDER BLANKS
Orders from Out of Town Not Filled,
as They Must Be Sent Through
Home offices-Foodstuffs for
Less Than Market Prices.

Uncle Sans wholesale grocery branch
store at the Brattleboro postoffice, which
began doing business yesterday, had a
satisfactory days business, and Judging
from the way orders came in the people
appreciate the opportunity to secure at
least a few of the necessaries of life at
reasonable prices.
More than $500 was taken in on the
first days orders, and two items in Brat.
tleboro's allotment of the government
foodstuffs were exhausted, namely, canned
cherries and two-pound cans of baked
beans. Substantial amounts of the other
commodities listed in the Brattleboro al
lotment are still available.
Postmaster NJ j. Moran has received
a number of orders from out of town, but
these will be returned to the senders. All
first, second, third and fourth class post.
offices have been allotted a certain
amount of the government stores, and
patrons of postofiices outside Of Brattle-
boro should order through the offices in
their own towns If they were allowed
to order through the Brattleboro office
it would deprive Brattleboro people Of
the opportunity of ordering through the
Office here, as the stock would become
exhausted. Moreover, the goods can be
obtained Just as cheaply through the
small offices as through the large ones.
The window between the stamp window
and the registry department in the local
| postoffice is open for the reception oi
orders for these supplies, and in order
| to assist customers the local Office has
prepared large number of order blanks
| for free distribution Each blank con
| tains a list of the foodstuffs offered fol
sale, together with the prices, with blank
spaces to be filled in with the name and
| address of the customer, the amount oi
each purchase and the amount OF parcel
| post postage required. Whenever per
son gives an order it is made out in dupli
| cate and the customer retains one copy
| The postoffice retains copy, and from
| the various blanks the local postofiics
makes up its order on the zone. surplu;
property officer in Boston, the distribut
| ing point for this zone
| Order blanks are not furnished by the
government, and the postoffice is not re
Qu1red to make them out, but this has
been done here for the accommodation
| of all, and the blank which has been got
ten out tells the whole story alta glance
This is the kind of cooperation the gov
ernment desires in its effort to give tn,
public the benefit of the surplus stock o
supplies.
BY a comparison of the federal price lis
with the prevailing market prices any
where it will be seen that the pric
charged for the government food deliv
cred at the consumers homes is well III
der that charged elsewhere.
Inasmuch as no order for fractiona
parts of cartons of any kind of food
sent to Boston it is necessary to hold oil
ders here until enough have been receive
to make up full carton. For this reaso
it has been thought advisable to ask pei
sons desiring one-pound cans of foods t
order in lots of six cans or multiples G
six, to facilitate ordering and delivery
Neighbors will find it to their advantae
to combine in making up substantial ol
ders.