Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-16

in third class weighing more than !
eight ounces will go at parcel post
rates.
Fourth class matter: Proposed in
creases in zone rates average APP
proXimately cents per package for
all zones, with increases eraging
more than cents per package for
nearby zones, with a lesser increase
in the sixth zone, and no increases
in the seventh and eighth zones,
with a provision that rates on books,
catalogs, etc, weighing more than
eight ounces, shall be l cent per
piece less than the rates applicable
to merchandise.
Insurance fees.
Minimum increased from 3 to 5
cents, with lesser adjustments in the
higher fees.
G. 0. ID. fees:
Increased from present 10 and 25
cents to u, Is and IS cents.
Money orders:
Present fees of 8 to 80 cents
changed to from ) to % cents.
Registered mail:
Increased from 10 to Is cents, with
Scent fee for return receipt.
Special delivery:
Present 10 cent fee for all matter
up to two pounds unchanged. All
matter Weighing in excess of two
pounds to ten pounds, Is cents; in
excess Of ten pounds, 20 cents.
Meets Salary Increase
In transmitting the recommends
! tons of Senator Sterling, Mr.. New
to meet the SOS 900, 000 postal en-
,,lpyou' nav, irrraoCa coma
from somewhere
The question" he said, "is wheth-
\ or it shall be assessed against the
general taxpayer on whether it shall
be obtained by providing increased
rates for mail now carried at a loss.
1t is my belief that the latter is the
correct method"
ut will be observed" he wrote,
that the suggestions affect every
class Of mail ON which the depart
ment now sustains a loss, as re-
vealed by the result of the cost ascer-
tainment just completed by direc-
ton of congress-
Calling attention that the loss on
seCondclass mail-neWspapers and
perlodicas-is placed at STATEHOOD
in the cost asCertainment report, the
postmaster general said that mot
withstanding this, the recommends
tion for increases on secOnd-Class
calls for $10,S76.000."
cone million of this" he added.
lis expected to be derived from
newspapers mailed by individuals
and not by publishers.
"In holding the increase to this
class within the limits named. the
department has been governed by
numerous considerations it has
been the traditional policy of the
government to give publications the
low rates, recognizing them as dis
tributOrs of general information. It
always has and still does recognize
the desire of the public for daily
news and current information and
reading matter
Publishers Open Fire
Assailing both the postmaster gen
erals recommendation and the cost
ascertainment report, the publish
ers' association, in its statement,
presented statistics to show that Mr..
News recommendation for In
creases on daily newspapers are
based largely on the ALLEGATION of
cost in handling over the rural free
delivery routes, which cost $S7,542,.
G94 to maintain, and produce no rev.
enue.
He does not propose an increase
in postage on first-cIass or third
class mail or fourth-class mail to
meet this situation" the statement
said. with these classifications he
pUrsues the policy of spreading their
cost and their receipts over the en-.
tire mail service, but having driven
second-class mail out of practically
all of the post service except the
rural free delivery service, the post
master general pursues the policy OF
trying TO make certain divisions Of
tn esecond-clas mail pay their cost
or the rural routes, while he eX-
empts other divisions of second-class
mail from this necessity"
The cost ascertainment report was
further attacked on the ground that
while the newspa pers are large con
tributors to the revenues of the city
postoffices from (which they get no
service 10 speak of" a large por-
ton Of the expenditures on account
Of the postoffice arbitrarily are
allotted to their account"