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TWENTY-NINTH FRUIT-GROWERS' CONVENTION. 



Parcels Post in Other Countries. 



Country. 



11 lbs. by Parcels Post 



England. Germany 



Exp. S. S. 



from 

 Washing- 

 Mexico, ton- 



Aden 



Algeria 



Angola, West Africa. 



Argentina 



Bahamas 



Belgium 



Bosnia 



Bulgaria 



Constantinople 



Egypt 



Foochow 



Greece 



Japan 



Jerusalem 



Madeira 



$1 20 

 62 



.|0 83 



30 



$0 90 

 40 

 70 

 58 

 58 

 35 

 30 

 45 

 43 

 45 

 58 

 45 

 97 

 45 

 45 



$4 00 



3 50 

 5 00 



4 50 

 3 80 



4 00 



3 24 



4 00 



5 00 



234 places. United States parcels post with 31 only 



In Alabama there are 334 express offices and 2,445 postoffices. 

 Now, an 11-pound package from New York — of course, these are simply 

 averages for the State, the charge depends on the distance — on 11 

 pounds from Alabama to New York, or vice versa, the charge by express 

 is $1.33. At the postal rate in Germany it would be simply 12 cents — 

 saving to the person receiving, you might say, as he usually foots the 

 bill, $1.21. When I compiled the figures shown on this chart the 

 German could send from Germany to Alabama, or to New York, 11 

 pounds for 58 cents. That is not true to-day, as on July 1st last our 

 postoffice authorities reduced the maximum weight of a package carried 

 to 4f pounds, and that is the most you can send now to or from Germany 

 through the post. The Mexican could send the same package for 66 

 cents, or 67 cents less than the native American can send for. You 

 see you are paying for not acting up to your privilege as American 

 citizens when you do not direct your own postal service, letting the 

 other fellow direct it for you. In Alaska there are 3 express offices and 

 53 postoffices. The express rate from New York is $3.89. The German 

 rate would be 12 cents — the German could send it for that before July 

 1st last, and his saving, the difference between the German rate and 

 the express rate from New York, being $3.77. Arizona has 41 express 

 offices and 202 postoffices; 11 pounds from New York, $3.89. The 

 German post rate would be 12 cents; saving, at the German rate, $3.77. 

 The German could send for 58 cents, and would save $3.31, and so on. 

 I will not bother you with the chart any more. A word is enough to 

 the wise, and I trust you are all wise. 



Now you know there are two kinds of postal service, under different 

 Acts of Congress and subject to different regulations. There is a 

 domestic postal service and a foreign postal service. The domestic 



