Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1912 — Each Postmaster Will Work Out Zone for Parcels’ Post [ARTICLE]

Each Postmaster Will Work Out Zone for Parcels’ Post

A dispatch from Washington says: The postoffice department has decided that every postmaster shall work out the parcels post zone of which his office will be the center. The department will undertake to furnish postmasters with information that will enable them to perfect the system. It is pointed out at the department that if/a complete parcels post system should be installed there would be in the neighborhood of sixty thousand zones, and that for the department to work out this number of zones would entail an enormous expense. While Postmaster-General Hitchcock expects to begin introducing the new system the first of January, the time fixed biy law, it wilh-be the middle of next year before any consid- t erable number of postoffices are designoted as parcels postoffices. At the outset a few of the larger offices in each state will be so designated ahd the list will be increased gradually.