Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1913 — Sent Sample Bricks By the Pareels Post. [ARTICLE]

Sent Sample Bricks By the Pareels Post.

Every employe of the Gary postofflee has sore arms today as the first taste of the parcels post, and Postmaster, John W. Call and Chief Clerk Joseph Tracey are carrying their arms around in bandages. Yesterday two big dray wagons backed up to the postoffice and unloaded 1,000 heavy paving bricks, each one a separate stamped parcel. The bricks are samples being mailed by W. P. F. Barty, a Gary brick dealer, who found that he could send them at less expense by parcels post than by express. The postmaster and assistants spent most of the day carrying the 6,000 pounds of bricks into the postoffice, to be ready for the first outgoing postal parcel mail tomorrow.