PARCEL POST IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF HON. JONATHAN BOURNE, JR. CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON PRINTED FOR THE USE OF THE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1912 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. DATA REGARDING PARCEL-POST SYSTEMS OF OTHER COUNTRIES. To the Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads: Believing that the experience of other countries in the establishment and operation of parcel-post service would be of value in the study of the parcel-post question in the United States, I have secured, through the assistance of the Department of State, information on this subject from most of the leading countries of the world. I have already submitted to the members of the committee in the condensed form of a parcel-post chart much of the statistical information thus secured, together with statistics gathered from other sources and relevant to the general subject. In order that Members of the Senate and House may have in convenient form the full information received, I am submitting in the following pages complete copies of the requests for information and the replies thereto, with translations of pertinent portions of many documents printed in foreign languages which accompanied these replies. |