Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-11 | Page 12 | War Time Delivery Plan Begins Today

Wl lit DELIVERY PUN BECK) TODAY Salt Lakers to Be Acquainted Ac-quainted With One-a-Day System. Salt Lake housewives will to3ay get their first taste of the "one delivery a tlaj system which has bee,, voluntarily adopted adopt-ed l'v the merchants of the city at tne sueeestion of IV. F. Jensen, recently appointed ap-pointed commissioner of commercial economy under the direction ot tho national na-tional council of defense and in collaboration collabora-tion with the war defense woik of the Utah council of defense. Under tho one delivery a day plan. . the various department and grocctj stoics will travel over their routes but once, t.u day, abolishing tho time-honored stem of manv deliveries and of seiidmff out goods on approval, winch sraduaUj, be came an expensive burden to the mer chants, but which was continued ai 1 improved im-proved because of the competition between be-tween various companies. ,.n,. Thn regulations which were rocentO adopted bv tho merchants and which become be-come effective this morning, are as 101-lows: 101-lows: Beginning March 11. 191S. retail merchants will riot be permitted to make more than one delivery per da over a certain delivery route, or to any single customer. More than ono delivery will be permitted, however, to restaurants, hotels, railroad stations sta-tions and hospitals. Downtown retail merchants are requested re-quested to adopt a general plan or making deliveries to the western part of the city in the morning and to the eastern part of the city in the afternoon. after-noon. Merchants in the same line of business busi-ness are requested to confer, and to adopt by March 11 uniform timo schedules. All deliveries to any one customer in excess of one delivery per day are termed "special deliveries," and all merchants are requested to make and collect a minimum charge of 15 cents lor each "special delivery." The practice of sending articles on approval necessitates extra deliveries and greatly increases the cost of handling han-dling merchandise, and merchants are requested to discontinue this wasteful practice nd to refuse to accept the return of goods once purchased, except ex-cept for some fault on the part of the seller. All merchants will be required to file a report by March 20 on a form that will be provided, such a report to state in detail the delivery plan adopted by each merchant to conform con-form with "regulations established.