PARCEL POST 



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PARCEL POST 



will be iiiiule. To guard against unwieldy pack- 

 ages, it is required that the same must not be 

 more than seventy-two inches in length and 

 girth combined. 



The method of determining the amount of 

 - one of the most interesting 

 feature of 'he -yMem. It -eein- impo ible 

 for the 1'nited Stan - to adopt a "Hal" rate, 

 that i- to say, i" estimate the postage accord- 

 ing to weight only, and charge the -ame lor all 

 i .-ill other mail matin-. Mani- 

 muM be estimated accordn - 

 _ht and distance, and this necessitated the 

 adoption of a zone system. A carefully pn- 

 d map of the United States is divided by 

 cross lines into quadrangular areas, one-half of 

 . MI length and breadth (about thirty 

 miles square), called unit- of area. These unit- 

 i in regular succession, beginning 

 with number 1 in Porto Rico and ending with 

 number 5.803 in the state of Washington. But 

 location of a number of "these units 



falls in the (Ire;,! Lake-, the Cull' of Mexico. 



the , ! some in Canada, there are only 



3,500 numbered KguaMI in the land area of the 



EN itof. 



K-ich of this latter number of units becomes 

 the center of a system of zones, formed by 

 drav, concentric circles (that i-. circle- 



witli a common center but with varying diame- 

 whose radii are 50. 150, 300. 600. 1.000. 

 1.400 and 1,800 miles respectively, thus dividing 

 the 1'mted State-, with respect to each unit, 

 into -even zones. The eighth zone includes all 

 units outside of the seventh xone. The rates of 



pOSt a. according to the Xolie 111 which 



the- dli\ery otlice i- -ituated m re-pect to the 

 - ndinu otlice. A moment'- ivllection -ho\\- 



only tho-e office- located III the -aim unit 



ten of /one- ; thei. 

 -- n\ to i i .~>(M) different maps 



' in Heed- of all the po-t offiCW Ml the 



I'mted States, and to give them then MM 

 I post regulations. 



it. an comphcai. .1 M " 



be. As a matter of i:c \ little -tudy 



> postmaster to determine offhand the 

 in which i- located any otlice named in 

 o his office. If he does not k; 

 ;ng to the parcel post guide wind, 

 otlice possesses, he can see the number of the 

 unit m which the office is situated. th> 

 amming the map made for 1 | readily 



sees the number of the tot. :..lloum e 



- al.l- ibles him nmt 



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9 Ibs 



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11 lb> 



12 Ibs 

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15 Ibs 



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19 DM 



20 lb! 



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 18 



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 88 

 M 



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 87 

 71 



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 .74 

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 .86 

 .92 

 .98 

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 17 



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71 

 .81 



lot 



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1 LM 

 1.31 

 1.41 

 1.51 



1 il 

 1 71 

 1.81 



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1.44 

 1.56 



1 ,,s 



1 .Ml 



1.92 



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 2.16 



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For parcels above L'O pounds, in the first t\v 

 zones, the rate increases in the same proportion 

 until the 70-pound limit is reached. 



In Canada. At present, the Canadian parcel 

 POM -v-tem is in a -tage of development. 

 In domestic service meichandi-e can be 

 through the mails, but the weight limit i< only 

 five pound-, and the rate i< high, from live 



I to twenty-two cents per pound. It 

 flat rate, the -ame for any distance u. < 

 However, packages of eleven pounds weight 

 may be sent from Canada to most of the 

 countries of the world, though not a- \it to 

 the United States. Canadians can only -end 

 to or receive from the United States pack 



-hing not more than seventy ounces. The 

 rates of postage to a foreign country depend 

 on distance sent and the country to which a 

 parcel is sent. Preference is shown to the 

 Tinted Kingdom and its dependrn 



In Great Britain. This country eMabli-hed I 

 parcel poM -v-t, in in 1.S83. and -taii-m- -ho\\ 

 that it ha- grown steadily in popular favor. 

 The limit of weight i- eleven pound.-, the di- 

 mension of the package mu-t n> 



-two inch.- in length and girth combined. 

 Tli. 11 the tir-t 



pound and increasing acconlmu to \\eight. 



Continental Europe. Most of the nations of 



i>. ha\e i MI .-el post systems. The limits 



of weight are as follows j t ,|\ , i, \en pounds; 



France, twenty-two pounds; Au-t na. < Icrmany 



and S rh 110 pound-; Hclgmni 132 



pounds. Some countrie- ha\e no limit as to 



but <!,.. '<>i- unwieldy packages. 



Germany and Austria have t) 



.me-, the others have a flat i 

 In L'. n- r.d. tl<. mr. rnational bueioess cmd' 



