INTERNATIONAL PARCELS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 18 April 1917, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL PARCELS

i BIG AVAR-TIME ( INCREASE. One important result of the war already effected in the trade of the world is the great increase ir. the use of the parcels post systems of nearly all counThere is an interesting analysis of this in "The Americas," the organof the National City Bank of New York. Accordum to this article, leaving Germany and her allies out of consideration, the rest of the world has apparently doubled its mail traffic in small parcels since the beginning of the-war. Enßland,. in 1913, shipped out 4,637,902 parcel* by post,- as against 6,964.902 in-1916. In particular, Great Britain's traffic with Holland and . Russia has increased' enormously. One of the 'most remarkable increases, though, has been the' growth of Japan's business with Russia. The United States exported through the mails in 1915-16 1,352,639 parcels having: a total weight of 6,269,093 pounds, as against 936,365 parcels weighing 3,347,899 pounds posted to foreign lands in 1914-15. The National City Bank thinks that lihe United States "is coming'along well" in this field, but believes that some reasons why "America has not developed the parcels post in foreign business" to the same extent as Germany, France, and England are ;the "excellent service" rendered by the private express com-, panies, and the lack of any,developed system of insurinjr parcels outward bound from the United States, as well as the lack of a system for sending them "C.0.D."