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

The conditions under which postal business is conducted render it impossible to earmark the expenses properly chargeable to the parcel post, since expenses are for the most part incurred jointly.

From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by Smith, A. D.