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...five years the commercial airplane will be four times, the size it is today, and eventually commerical aviation will create a business of its own, as did the Parcel Post, and airplanes will travel 500 miles per hour," were Mr. Cowie's predictions...
Foreign Markets. The U. S. has negotiated 72 parcel-post conventions with various foreign countries, greatly facilitating foreign trade. Mr. New called the attention of businessmen to the danger in which the last Congress placed our parcel-post convention with uba by failing to remove restrictions on U. S. imports from Cuba...
...Parcel Post. Fourteen years ago these 50 offices would have consti- tuted no business index, because in 1913 fourth-class mail was only about 5% of all domestic matter carried. Now it is 63%, the 14- year-old parcel post service having been extensively adopted by manufacturers for delivering their merchandise. The Rural Free Delivery system, inaugurated in 1896, opened up a new mail-advertising field which is now seven million families strong, and parcel post enabled advertisers to fill their mail orders with mail deliveries...
...Special Handling." A refinement of the parcel post was lately introduced. For 25c extra, parcels for either urban or rural delivery can be specially stamped, marked "special handling," and assured of receiving the same treatment as letters. "Special Handling" parcels are kept out of the sacks containing ordinary parcels; they skip the terminals and are expedited in the railway mail cars...
Sorting mail at the Burlington Ave. Station, Boston, last week, Postoffice Clerk Frank W. Steele came upon a suspicious-looking package, five inches long, four inches wide. Wired to the parcel was an envelope, with the address "Mr. Governor of Massachusetts" written in an illiterate hand. Mr. Steele pitched the bundle to one side, continued sorting mail...