The Express Companies of the United States
by Bertram Benedict
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About this eBook
- Author
- Benedict, Bertram, 1891-1978
- Title
- The express companies of the United States : a study of a public utility
- Credits
- Produced by Adrian Mastronardi, Carla Foust, 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
- eBook-No.
- 37024
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37024
- Release Date
- August 10, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Transcriber's note — THE EXPRESS COMPANIES OF THE UNITED STATES
- 2.FOREWORD
- 3.THE CHARACTER OF EXPRESS SERVICE — FOOTNOTE:
- 4.ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT — THE VENTURES OF HARNDEN, ADAMS, WELLS AND FARGO — EXPRESS COMBINATIONS — LACK OF REGULATION — AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS OF EXPRESS COMPANIES — THE EXPRESS COMPANIES AND THE RAILROADS — REGULATION — PARCEL-POST
- 5.THE PRESENT ACTIVITIES OF EXPRESS COMPANIES — PROFITS OF EXPRESS COMPANIES
- 6.GOVERNMENT POSTAL EXPRESS VS. PRIVATE EXPRESS COMPANIES — COMPARISON WITH OTHER COUNTRIES — EXPRESS SERVICE VS. PARCEL-POST
- 7.COST OF LIVING
- 8.ECONOMY IN OPERATION — CONSOLIDATION OF EQUIPMENT — CONSOLIDATION OF AGENCIES — CONSOLIDATION OF PERSONNEL — CONSOLIDATION OF OFFICES — THE POSTAGE STAMP — MISCELLANEOUS SAVINGS — THE CONSEQUENT REDUCTION IN RATES
- 9.METHODS OF ESTABLISHING A GOVERNMENT POSTAL EXPRESS
- 10.THE PRESENT STATUS OF EXPRESS COMPANIES — ADVANTAGES — WAGE INCREASES — INADEQUACIES — THE LARGER ISSUE
- 11.APPENDIX — EXPRESS CONTRACTS
- 12.NOTES
- 13.BIBLIOGRAPHY — Transcriber's note
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