Show PARCEl FUEL POST POPULAR WITH SAlT LAKE UKE PUBliC Est Estimated mated More Than Outgoing Packages Handled Hurdled Here There Thero is Js no doubt dO but t the c parcel i post li has bas s been boon popular with tho the Salt I Lake public Moreover cr local comments have hac convinced eon me that tho the public geny generally gen gen- orally is satisfied with its operation 0 In Iu these words Po Postmaster A. A L. L Thomas Thomaa of the Salt Sult Lake Lako post ico described do- do scribed tho the first years year's operation of the thc parcel post ost system in tho local office With ith the beginning of toda today's 5 business the parcel post feature of the tho post postoffice postoffice postoffice office department will record tho first year car of its history Of course courso the parcel post has bas added additional duties to the Jo local al office continued Mr r Thomas But so did tte the tuc inauguration of tho the freo delivery cf system system tem and all other progressive additions to the tho postal service service That the conditions applying to the tho local office prevail ail throughout the tho country is evidenced to in tho the extensions iou of the parcel post service ser which will ill go into effect tomorrow With Pith the beginning be beginning ginning of the tho year vear 1914 the weights of packages admitted to parcel post will willbo bo ho doubled Hereafter packages for the first and second zones weighing as high I as fifty pounds will be accepted for tor or delivery deli Twenty parcel post pounds has as been fixed as the new weight limit for the tho remaining zones rones I During the tho year ear the tho local office has bas insured approximately 1 33 1 r rp p parcel r l post packages whilo while 4 44 insured packages p from other offices have e been delivered In the tho year 1913 1013 C C. O. O I D D. parcel post packages were mailed from the lo local al office and doH cred ered Although figures figure arc are con con- an indication of the success of the parcel post pot they represent only a asmal small smal percentage of the tho total volume of ot parcel post justness business in inasmuch as the greater amount of packages have ha been sent prepaid and without parcel po post t insurance Since the tho abandonment of the special parcel post stamp last July Tul there has bas been no means of ch checking ki g tho the regular parcel post business of the tho local office However cr employees of the tho local office who have bave been in constant contact with tho the parcel post business estimate th that t insured packages es represent sent only about 20 per cent o ot of the num number ber of packages handled This would give gie t the tha 6 local office a record of more morn morean mornan than an 16 outgoing parcel post packages packages pack pack- ages during tho year Officials o ot of the local office assert that it would be impossible im im- possible possible to give gi a summary of the tho contents contents contents' con con- tents tents' of tho the packages cs sent by parcel post est EYer Everything from baby shoes to Thanksgiving dinners have boon been transported transported transported trans trans- ported safely by b. b Uncle Sams Sam's now new ser ser- vice |