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Subj: U. S. Parcel Post Service
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Sent: 160809/1125Z 7376@KF5JRV.#NWAR.AR.USA.NA BPQ1.4.65
The U. S. Post Office Begins Parcel Post Service
"The service began on January 1, 1913. And begin it did. At the stroke of
midnight Postmaster Edward M. Morgan in New York City and Postmaster General
Hitchcock dropped packages addressed to each other into the mail, racing to be
the first to use the service. They were not alone in looking to create a
“firstö out of the new service. These cups were the first objects officially
mailed under the new service. But the first package to be delivered was
11 pounds of apples sent to New Jersey governor (and President-Elect)
Woodrow Wilson. The Woodrow Wilson Club of Princeton deposited the apples at
a local post office at precisely 12:01 a.m. By prearrangement, the carrier
assigned to normally deliver the governor’s mail, David Gransom, received the
parcel “before the cancelling ink was dryö and set off “driving furiously down
the muddy street for the president elect’s home.ö He delivered the apples to
the waiting Wilson at 12:04 a.m. Wilson met Gransom at the door, signed for
the package, and presented the carrier with the pencil"
"Parcel post service began on January 1, 1913 and was an instant success.
During the first five days of service, 1,594 post offices reported handling
over 4 million parcel post packages. The effect on the national economy was
electric. Marketing through parcel post gave rise to great mail-order
businesses. In addition, parcel post created an immediate demand for special
packaging suitable for mailing the wide array of commodities considered
deliverable under the system"
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