LOWER PARCELS POST RATES

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 182, 30 April 1936, Page 2

LOWER PARCELS POST RATES

New Scale Stimulates Business Revision of parcels post rates, involving a concession of £25,000 a year to users, has had the effect of promoting business. The Postmaster-General, Hon. t. Jones, said in an interview yesterday tha’t the Post Office had had a very encouraging experience in connection with its revision of parcels post rates. “Careful examination of the parcels post business over* a long period was made by my officers,” he said, “with the object of analysing the costs of handling all classes of packages. This led to the conclusion that a substantial reduction in charges could be made and that business would be so stimulated thereby that it could still be conducted on a paying basis. “The first month's experience of the new rates and the more liberal conditions fully supports that view. Business firms have shown appreciation of the new scale by increasing their postings, and a return of the daily average postings at the four chief centres of the Dominion provides ample evidence of the success of the new scale. The particulars arc as follows:—

“It has hern ascertained,’’ concluded the Minister, "that equally good results have been shown in many other centres, and there are two cases in which the business last month was double ' that of the average postings of pareels prior to the introduction of the reduced seale of charges."

Increase Old New per scale. scale. cent. Auckland ...■ .... <»4 123S 81 Wellington • .,.. I860 92 Christciiurch .... 13S *S32 90 Dunedin .... 309 54S 1•