Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1912 — All Details Now Completed For New Parcels Post System. [ARTICLE]

All Details Now Completed For New Parcels Post System.

All details have been completed for the inauguration of the parcel post service on January 1. The postoffice department finished Monday the task of shipping the 60,000 postmasters and 45,000 rural carriers the necessary printed matter, supplies and equipment. These shipments have contained in all 70,000 scales, 110,000 rubber stamps and 10,000,000 insurance tags, and in addition 153,292,455 parcel post stamps and 12,058,435 postage -due stamps. Chambers of commerce, boards of trade and mercantile organizations have been supplied with the zone maps in quantities amounting in some instances to 10,000 copies.