Show NEW posa LAW MAY BUYING ff HOME demurrage to be charged on C 0 D parcels after 15 days A new postal regulation concerning C 0 D parcels which will go into effect october 1 1930 may have the effect of reducing buying away from home which works such a hardship on local merchants especially during this pe period r od of business depression when every penny spent at home counts big the sum tand and substance of the new ruling is that there will be a demurrage charge on all collect on delivery packages left in the post office longer than 15 days after the addressee has been notified of its arrival either the sender will have to pay return postage on these parcels at the end of 15 days storage or the receiver will have to pay a penalty of five cents for each day that it is left in the post office after the allowed 15 day period in such a case there is a strong probability that people will not order C 0 D packages quite so readily and the merchants in other cities including mail order houses will not be so anxious to send these packages subject to the whim of the person who ordered them and may just as likely refuse to accept them when they arrive for quite often the price sounds much bigger than that quoted originally especially with the postage and C 0 D fee added on the editor is informed that the richfield post office alone does a money order business of from to a year and approximately two thirds of this amount represents C 0 D packages paid for that would mean that at least is being sent out of town for purchases many of which could have been bought here at home with the result that money spent would have stayed here and some of it ultimately come back into the spenders pocket or at least would have gone toward local improvements taxes schools churches and the like the two leading mail order houses have just shipped in some 15 sacks of catalogues cataloguer catal each to the richfield post office and each sack contains approximately 25 catalogues cataloguer catal this makes a total of catalogues cataloguer catal sent here by each house or a total of for the two firms for this territory it is interesting to note in this connection that this batch of cata bogues are the first in some time which do not include the offer of the company to pay postage on the articles bought from them evidently that experiment was not a howling success for it was merely another ruse of those firms to attract the unwary buyer and the postage money was of course added to the original cost as a comparison of prices in the two catalogues cataloguer catal will prove following is the exact copy of the order issued by the postmaster general regarding the payment of demurrage on C 0 D parcels af after ter they have lain in the post continued on page 5 new postal law ma may y stimulate buying at home continued from page 1 office for 16 15 days under such ret regulations as the po postmaster st master general may prescribe any collect on delivery parcel which the addres addressee addressed seb fails to remove from the post office within fifteen days from the first attempt to deliver or the first notice of arrival at the office of address may be returned to the sender charged charge with the return postage whether or not such parcel bears any specified specify e d t time i me limit for delivery ay ry and a demurrage charge of not exceeding five cents per lay clay may be collected when delivery has not been made to either cither the addressee or the sender until after the expiration of the prescribed period act of may 23 1930 A demurrage charge of five cents per day shall be collected on each domestic C 0 D article registered or unregistered which the addressee fails to remove from the post office within fifteen days after the first attempt to deliver or the first notice of arrival it at the office of address exclusive of the lay day delivery is first attempted or the first notice of arrival is issued at the office of address the actual day of delivery sundays and holidays the demurrage charges which have properly accumulated on a domestic collect on delivery article it at each post office where held must be paid before delivery by either the addressee or the sender when a C 0 D article on which demurrage has accrued is not accepted by the addressee the amount of demurrage charges shall be paid by the sender upon return of the C 0 D article to him postage due stamps representing the amount of demurrage charges shall be affixed to each article and canceled at the time of delivery the chances are the drought would not have lasted so long had there been more circuses and sunday school picnics |