Word: parcel
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...George von L. Meyer '79, Postmaster General of the United States, delivered a very interesting and instructive lecture in the Living Room of the Union last evening. He advocated the extension of a general parcel post as necessary for our farmers, and a system of postal savings banks that would keep our money from being sent out of the country by ignorant immigrants...
...Meyer then turned to his special subject, by stating that we should have a parcel post system in the United States. We must now pay more to send a package from New York to Boston than to ship it to Europe; whereas four pounds is the limit weight for this country, packages weighing eleven pounds can be sent to Europe. If this system were brought up-to-date, it would be of immense value to the farmer, who could order all his goods by mail and thus save time and expense...
...George von L. Meyer '79, postmaster general of the United States, will deliver a lecture in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock on "The Post Office and Proposed Changes Therein." He will consider the questions of postal savings banks and parcel post on rural routes...
...George von L. Meyer '79, postmaster general of the United States, will speak in the Living Room of the Union next Monday evening, at 8 o'clock. His subject will be "The Post Office and Proposed Changes Therein"; he will discuss postal savings banks and parcel post on rural routes...