Selected Articles on the Parcels Post

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Compiler

Phelps, Edith M., 1881-1980

Credits

Produced by MWS, Adrian Mastronardi, The Philatelic Digital Library Project at www.tpdlp.net and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications

Subject

Parcel post -- United States

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 52996

Release Date

September 6, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.EXPLANATORY NOTE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.BRIEF — Introduction — Affirmative — Negative
5. 5.BIBLIOGRAPHY — Bibliographies — General References — Books, Pamphlets and Documents — Magazine Articles — Affirmative References — Pamphlets and Documents — Magazine Articles — Negative References — Pamphlets and Documents — Magazine References — SELECTED ARTICLES ON THE PARCELS POST
6. 6.INTRODUCTION
7. 7.GENERAL DISCUSSION — Up to Members of Congress. — Data Relative to Proposed Extension of Parcel Post. pp. 1-6. — Exhibit 1. — Exhibit 2. — Exhibit 3. — Our Postal Express. — Data Relative to Proposed Extension of Parcel Post. pp. 8-14. — Send Fish, Eggs and Fruit — Call Swiss Service Best — Cash on Delivery Plan — A Table of Charges — Difficult to Estimate Cost — Has Become Great Factor — Provision for Insurance — Customs Easily Collected — Post-office, Our Mutual Express Company. pp. 1-3. — The Post-Office, Our Mutual Express Company — Third-Class Matter — Fourth-Class Matter — Exorbitant Rates — System of Postal Express. — Principal Provisions of the Postal Express Bill — Necessity for Postal Express — Prohibitive Express Charges — Ratios of average express charges to average freight charges in 11 countries. — Inadequacy of Various Proposals—Regulation — Various Parcels-Post Schemes — Essential Elements of an Adequate System — Advantages of Postal Express — The Agricultural Post — Hearings before the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. April 20-29, 1910. pp. 296-7. — Monthly Consular and Trade Reports. No. 329. pp. 104-6. February, 1908.
8. 8.AFFIRMATIVE DISCUSSION — Our Postal Express. pp. 1-6. — World’s Work. 21: 14248-51. April, 1911. — Congressional Record. 46: 1941-7. February 3, 1911. — Local Parcels Post — Congressional Record. 45: 9310-4. June 24, 1910. — A Brief for a Modern Parcels Post for the United States — Cosmopolitan. 36: 497*-9*. March, 1904. — Craftsman. 14: 592-4. September, 1908. — Independent. 70: 105-7. January 12, 1911. — People Demand a General Parcels Post. pp. 7-12. — Express Company Rates Cause Loss to Shippers—Express Company Methods Cause Loss to the Postal Department — The Parcels Post Not Openly Opposed by the Beneficiaries of Present Methods — Misdirected Energy Benefits Express Companies and Catalogue Houses — Catalogue Houses Don’t Need the Parcels Post, and Oppose It — Hampton’s. 26: 261-4. February, 1911. — Unwise Opposition of the Small Merchant — Part Played by the Express Companies — Enormous Profits of the Express Companies — Good Housekeeping. 53: 2-10. July, 1911. — Housekeeper. 31: 11-35. August, 1908.
9. 9.NEGATIVE DISCUSSION — Perils of Parcels Post Extension. pp. 13-31. — A Heavy Deficit Inevitable — Government Bears the Burden — Averages Are Misleading — The Average Haul — Second-Class Mail Matter — Conditions That Control Are Reversed — Impossibility of Adjustment — Act With Open Eyes — A Subsidy to a Favored Class — Who Are the Favored Class? — Effect of a Subsidy — Independent. 70: 72-3. January 12, 1911. — Further Thoughts on Parcels Post pp. 3-5. — One Cent Letter Postage, Second Class Mail Rates, and Parcels Post. pp. 14-22. — Parcels Post. pp. 6-15. — The Consumer Will Buy Goods No Cheaper — The Interstate Commerce Commission Now Has Power to Adjust and Regulate Express Rates and Will Regulate Them — Objections to Parcels Post — Will Injure Country Communities — It Will Increase the Horde of Government Employees — It Limits the Field of the Individual — Extravagance Will Be Augmented — Journal of Political Economy. 16: 417-35. July, 1908. — Parcels Post Problem. p. 20. — A. B. C. of Parcels Post. pp. 4-5. — Parcels Post. pp. 3-9. — Why Parcels Post Is Not a Good Thing for This Country. pp. 1-5. — Parcels Post and Postal Savings Banks, pp. 1-2. — Parcels Post. pp. 8-11. — In Foreign Countries — Railroad Ownership

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