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DIVISION OF CLASSIFICATION
Past Mirtrr Drpartntrut
THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL
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PARCEL POST OR FOURTH-CLASS MAIL.
CIRCULAR III-SEPTEMBER. 1910.
RATES OF POSTAGE, CLASSIFICATION, INSURANCE AND C. O. D. FEATURES, WRAPP010, ETC.
Fourth-class Matter Embraces that knon -u as domestic parcel post mail, and includes merchandise, farm and factory
products, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, and plants, books (including catalogs), miscellaneous printed matter weighing
more than 4 pounds, and all other mailable matter not embraced in the first, second, and third classes.
Extent and Usefulness of Parcel Post.-The domestic parcel post offers a convenient, Tack, and efficient means of
transporting mailable parcels to any post office in the United States or its possessions. The service reaches more places than any
other transportation agency. It brings producers and consumers into closer contact, thus opening the way to reducing the high
cost of living. Special treatment and advantages are accorded to shipments of farm products. Low poetage rates, based on the
service rendered, are provided. The rates to near-by zones are particularly advantageous. Parcels may ho insured against
lees and may be sent C. 0. D., and as special-delivery matter.
Rates of Postage on Fourth-Class or Parcel Post Matter-To be Fully Prepald-Unsealed-aro as follows:
(a) Parcels weighing 4 ounces or less, except books, seeds, plants, etc., 1 cent for each ounce or fraction thereof, any distance.
(6) Parcels weighing 8 ounces or less containing books, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, and plants, 1 cent for each 2 ounces
or fraction thereof, regardless of distance-- . „. _ •
(c) Parcels weighing more than 8 ounces containing books, seeds, plants, etc., parcels of miscellaneous printed matter weighing
more than 4 pounds, and all other parcels of fourth-class matter weighing more than 4 ounces are chargeable, according to distance
or zone, at the pound rates shown in the following table (except as provided in paragraph (d) below), a fraction of a pound being
computed as a full pound:
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Zones-Postal Guide and Keys.-For parcel post purposes the United States is divided into units of area 30 minutia; square,
which form the basis of eight postal zones. The unit numbers are shown in the State list of post offices in the Official Postal Guide,
which, cloth bound, may be purchased frum the Disbursing Clerk, Post Office Department, 'Washington, D. C., for 65 cents, delivered
to any address. Zone keys making maps unnecessary are furnished free to purchasers of the Guide. To ascertain in which
zone a post office is located from the office of mailing, first find the unit number of the office of address and then refer to the parcel
post zone key fur the mailing office.
The local Me applies to parcels mailed under the following conditions:
(I) At any poet office for local delivery at such office.
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(2) At any city letter carrier office, or at any point within its delivery limits, for delivery by carriers from that office.
(3) At any post office from which a rural route starts, for delivery on such route, or when mailed at any point on a rural route
for delivery at any other point thereon, or at the office from which the route starts, or for delivery on any other rural route starting
from the same office.
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