Category: History - American
Transcriber’s Note: obvious printers’ errors have been corrected but the spelling, hyphenation etc. in this book is generally inconsistent, as you might expect from a collection of articles by different authors: the editor did not impose a uniform style.
Transcriber’s Note: obvious printers’ errors have been corrected but the spelling, hyphenation etc. in this book is generally inconsistent, as you might expect from a collection...
2. Part 2The parcels post is not a new question. It has been the subject of popular discussion for years, and several of our postmasters-general have recommended an extension of our pres...
3. Part 3Antagonism to the proposed measures, when analyzed and found not to be the result of selfish motives, appears to be based upon inaccurate or insufficient information. In illustr...
4. Part 4No accurate information is available as to whether the European parcels posts are in reality self-supporting. They certainly are nearly so, and in some instances are regarded as...
5. Part 5Of course, the need for fast service will depend upon the greatness of the distance, when demand is immediate, as much as upon the valuable or perishable character of the shipme...
6. Part 6At times of increased postal traffic, before Easter, Whitsuntide and Christmas, a waybill for each package is required. The prices charged by the postoffice for forwarding parce...
7. Part 7The zone system of parcels post proposes, roughly, a flat rate per pound and per additional pound within the limits of any delivery office (that is a service which involves no t...
8. Part 8In the last published report of the postmaster-general of New Zealand it is pointed out that notwithstanding several important reductions in the postage rate the revenue of the...
9. Part 9It would be easy to show the endless ramifications of this beneficial service; but space need not here be taken up for that purpose. Sufficient has been indicated to show that t...
10. Part 10The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Every enlightened country except the United States has a parcels post. No country would think of abandoning it, any more than it would...
11. Part 11The principle that controls the average in estimating the length of the haul of second-class matter is that as the proportion of density of population increases the average leng...
12. Part 12To show how necessary this may be, permit me to inform you that the first batch of letters the government sent to Circle City, Alaska, though each was carried upon a 2c stamp, c...
13. Part 13It may well be doubted whether this tendency will ultimately be beneficial to the race. Vice, crime, and disease are rampant in the slums of our great cities. Human life, under...
14. Part 14And that the government will promote class legislation, for in seeking to favor the farmer who needs no such preferment, it will subsidize a commercial interest whose basic busi...