Show DISTANCE IS 1 anbu ZONES AND ANU RATES FIXED r I 1 X E D new parcels post law will become effective january putting residents of small towns and the farmers in close touch with markets the parcels poat law which has boon agitated for or year years and which wae was passed at th recent congles session eton will become effective january 13 1913 that tho th law will have a beneficial effect apon bus laese holies in ia the larger tilea ides and will place virtually all merchandising houses that deal in gooda goods in small bulk and email small quantity on a competing barts Is conceded by all those who have given cloeo study to the law the operation of this la law will put the government mall mail service in actual with express com and will brine biln the marcote much cloner to the tanner farmer aid a id to the residents of email small towns and cities it ie Is conceded that the op oration of the law will stimulate etim tho the trade of 0 the groat great mall mail order houses but at the same time it will give th the 0 smaller mercantile houses a chance to compete in their own territory and within cert aln hua 11 ata gions with the great mall order center of the east mat the new lav law reduces the merchandise rate materially and tn in a creases the weight ot of package gf that may be carried by mail mall brorn tour pound to a maximum of eleven pounds parcie pare lie will be delivered at all free delivery offices and to patron patrons living on star and rural can get et special Delli cf the ile special delivery dellver 7 rule of the post wilt will also be applied to the parcel parcels yoet post the special delivery fee be ten coak coats for each package the am tee charged for a special delivery letter parcel parcels may way alo so 0 be registered and may be insured against lose 1086 to 0 o A 11 1 of u ty tive dollar dollars upon payment of a regle ratton fee of tave centa for 6 aib b baci tage A tro lelon vision of ot the parcels poet post law ro quIres that distinctly tivo ly stamps mut must be placed upon tiar camill cels to go toy by post but they may be b mailed la in quantities of no loea less than two thousand identical Iden pieces without affixing 11 stamps the poi stage being paid in cash to the office of rec receipt A flat rato rate rf r c f otie cent an au ounce nto up to four ounces la Is made one ine pound packages pac kagee of merthan dise may be sent to any point in carbon county for example or to any point waln the fifty milea miles botte liking price sia its it cener for or five cents each hie ilie c coat la increased three centa cents a pound after tho the first pound making the toll live cents on one pound and ancl the cost on a package ot of maximum weight eleven pou pout iida ids thirty five centa en in the second zone fifty mile miles to a hundred and tift six cents Is charged for the first pound with tour four conta cents added tor for each additional ono one seven cbanta on the first pound with five cents tor for each idd Monal one ie 18 chirped in the next zone a hu bu and fifty to three hundred mit mt be he fourth zone extend from three hundred to 1 I 1 hundred milea miles with a tee fee of ight cents on the first lound and seven cents on e ili h pound additional th sixth zone extends from a thousand to fourteen fourte n hundred miles with a charge ot of lea wn cent cents on an the birst pound and nine cents on every additional one seventh zone four aten hundred to eighteen hundred ralls s a one pound package wili be carried for eleven centa cents with ten tea cents cent for each pound excess ahe last zone embraces all terri try beyond en bundra milea miles with a twelve cent fee for the first pound and the same rate on each aund over that to the eleven pound limit mn 1111 ltd in fit It lating the fact that tha law as original passed will become effective with he beginning of the now new year does lot not imply r necessarily that the arrangement ran gement of zones zonee and rates under which the operation of the parcels law will begin will remain as hey they are now designated A special in the law Is that with the consent of the interstate commerce oni mission after a careful aneati ration these rates ani ant weights cs and tonee zones may be modified the changes it if there be such will not be made however until the experience of the department has demon tho the need of such changes the requirements of the law aa as to the size of the package that may bo mailed under the provisions of the law are also of interest any article Is lual lable if it it doat not exceed eleven pounds in weight and it if it Is not more than six teet in leng length and girth combined the usual pro that the articles mailed shall not be of such a character as to be likely to injure the mall mails tho the postal equipment or poet office emp employee loyes are also made tt it ie is also required that articles mailed must bo be of such a Oar character acter that they will nat not perish pertal during a time that would reasonably be required to transport and deliver efiem |