parcel post

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Postal Department established parcel post and more than a decade before the Railway Express Agency.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2023

Forget the internet and delivery drivers, Pryce Jones used the superhighway of the day - the railway and parcel post.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2020

On this date in 1924, the first parcel post package was sent by airmail from Tucson to New York.

From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2017

The catalog business was helped along by a technological innovation — parcel post, which arrived in 1913.

From New York Times • May 13, 2016

Parcel Post Service.—In many countries the post office department also performs, through the parcel post service, what amounts to an express business.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford