Show Business Business Today Today Today- Delivery Firm Cuts Down DownIn jn In War Effort tT t T jj- jj JA JAME IES MARLOW and VILLIAM ILLIAM PINKERTON NEW V EW YORK June 4 Wide A World A good way not to help the he nation cut down on its Try try ty service to homes is to ask the Driver dri driver er who arrives at your door ith a package 1 To be a witness to your wedding wed wed- ding dint dinc beat in the basement door wit with an ax so sonny's little pool tible table can be put in there mail mall a aletter aletter aletter letter or run an errand L All Ml those and more have happened hap hap- ened ened to drivers for the United Parcel ar el service which makes deliveries tries cries in cities from co coast st to coast and md is trying to save man power and ind nd rubber robber tires When the office of defense transportation transportation trans trans- on June 1 asked big and little stores to reduce delivery service jerviCe 25 per cent Unit United d Parcel Parcel Par Par- cel eel service was prepared Began With Bicycle It had been doing that for months for th the service which started with a bicycle and worked Its Wa way up to thousands of automobile automobile auto- auto mobile nobile trucks does everything with ith th a system It It even has printed on the mirrors mir- mir ors in ih jh drivers' drivers locker room little ittle questions like these all intended in- in ended tended to send the men out in tidy rendition Hair cut Smile T Shave Tie straight raight Clothes pressed Shoes Shoes' shined lined There are even little rule books which they must learn by heart because the service expects all its to act like well behaved gentlemen t The books caution against scuffling scuffling scuffling fling or loud talk whistling or yelling yelling yelling yel yel- ling at people on the street using profanity and when they finally get to the customers they must not cut across the lawn or chew tobacco C Covers Coven 14 It Cities United Parcel service operates In New York Milwaukee Chicago Cincinnati San Diego Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia Newark Long Beach Seattle Seattle Se Se- attle attic Paterson N. N J. J Los Angeles Ange Ange- les Pasadena San Francisco and Oakland The idea for the service started Ute the head of James E. E Casey Caseyy When y en he ie began making deliveries with ith a a. bicycle in Seattle in 1907 EThe The expansion down the Pacific coast and md across to New York took q ite a a. while but the service probably probably ably ly would have gone further if the war hadn't interfered and hit it right where it lives In its rub rub- ier tires t A he f asey could afford it he graduated from a bicycle to a motorcycle mo mo- got some of his friends t tah help lP out making deliveries for Seattle stores and expanded the thenice thenice nice ervice always keeping his organization organization close knit He is president o Of the company Started Started Together All the officers of the service now flow are men who started with Casey Cagey as boys except for an acCountant accountant accountant ac ac- ac- ac countant who did the bookkeeping for Ur tl the group in their early days days- The service moved into New York rk In j. 1930 after 1930 after preliminary surveys by its engineers engineers and and fi fi- fi ally nally worked ahead until now it delivers for m more re than Man Man- hattan attan stores including all the bIg ff ones except R. R H. H Macy and Company pany They service more than 2000 00 stores in the nation 1 Everything is worked by system sod and na the officers of United Parcel J ce try try to think of everything r that at might happen In their field even to 0 little things like getting cu customers customers' names straight Expansion Delayed The service service had thoughts of Branching out from froni New York but the wa war wai made it Jt clear it could not t be oe done now and right after th Japanese attacked Pearl Har- Har kor rd the the company checked It its tires a 7 and lured figured red they could keep on K I deliveries around the for at least three years j sensible y-sensible curtailment of elea Department store campaigns r g their customers to carry Oll One anythIng they can carry has too and the service serice this eek e reported cp that Parcel ad dwindled 30 39 per cent sometimes the customers do than haCky an n I things but none the woman who tiptoed to the e door when the driver arrived With basket a and told him not to Sound abound because the basket Was as a. a bed d for her d dog and she i wanted Fido to be surprised when he ie e woke up II |