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Farmers Boost Postal Receipts
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Farmers Boost Postal Receipts
Source of Digital Item
Urbana Daily Courier, 26 June 1915, Page 8
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
Excerpt
Growth of the farm-to-table service by parcel post is recorded in reports from the postmasters of the principals cities in which the service has been installed.
The results are said to be gratifying in the large centers of population where the need for additional facilities of obtaining fresh country produce is greatest. In practically all the large cities and in industrial communities the service is now firmly established.
The postal authorities are pleased to find that the opposition of city and country retailers to this and other features of the recent development of the parcel post has died out. The merchants, they assert, are finding that the governments express facilities are of value to them. "Parcel-post selling, it is declared, is no longer confined to the big mail-order houses.
Green grocers and even butchers in country towns, and in some cases the farmers themselves, through the organization of co-operative selling agencies, are collecting the farm produce of their locality and marketing it in the cities by mail order. This practice is encouraged by the post office department.
Country selling agencies, it has developed, whether co-operative or privately managed, articulate the output of many farms, standardize price and quality and assure a steady supply and a reliable system of exchange.
In nearly all the cities where lists of farmers have been circulated merely names and an enumeration of articles offered for sale have been included. In several of the cities, however, prices were added . In these instances it was found that the producers quoted widely varying figures.
"The parcel post has done much and promises to do much more toward completing a system of food distribution which will knit the city and country more closely together," said an official of the post-office department.
"With its rural free delivery service the postal establishment reaches virtually all farming territory, and alike expands the selling opportunity of the producer and buying opportunity of the consumer. Farmers hitherto unable to reach the city market have had little cash demand for their barnyard, truck and dairy products , and have been compelled to dispose of them in trade at the nearest country town.
The results are said to be gratifying in the large centers of population where the need for additional facilities of obtaining fresh country produce is greatest. In practically all the large cities and in industrial communities the service is now firmly established.
The postal authorities are pleased to find that the opposition of city and country retailers to this and other features of the recent development of the parcel post has died out. The merchants, they assert, are finding that the governments express facilities are of value to them. "Parcel-post selling, it is declared, is no longer confined to the big mail-order houses.
Green grocers and even butchers in country towns, and in some cases the farmers themselves, through the organization of co-operative selling agencies, are collecting the farm produce of their locality and marketing it in the cities by mail order. This practice is encouraged by the post office department.
Country selling agencies, it has developed, whether co-operative or privately managed, articulate the output of many farms, standardize price and quality and assure a steady supply and a reliable system of exchange.
In nearly all the cities where lists of farmers have been circulated merely names and an enumeration of articles offered for sale have been included. In several of the cities, however, prices were added . In these instances it was found that the producers quoted widely varying figures.
"The parcel post has done much and promises to do much more toward completing a system of food distribution which will knit the city and country more closely together," said an official of the post-office department.
"With its rural free delivery service the postal establishment reaches virtually all farming territory, and alike expands the selling opportunity of the producer and buying opportunity of the consumer. Farmers hitherto unable to reach the city market have had little cash demand for their barnyard, truck and dairy products , and have been compelled to dispose of them in trade at the nearest country town.
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