NEW C.O.D. SYSTEM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20151, 21 May 1928, Page 11

NEW C.O.D. SYSTEM

EXTENSION IN ENGLAND POSTMEN TO COLLECT UP TO £lO. The Postmaster-General, in announcing the extension of the cash-on-deliv-I cry system, said: — “Arrangements have been made to extend the service to packets sent by registered letter post. I have also arranged with the railway companies operating in Great Britain for the introduction, on the same date, of a cash-on-dclivery service for goods other than highly perishable traffic dispatched by railway. The sender of a railway cash-on-delivery consignment must be presented to the railway company before delivery will be afforded. This document he will send as a cash-on-delivery letter, marked for payment of the total amount due to him, to the consignee. The latter will present it to the company and obtain his goods; the sum collected will be forwarded at once by the Post Office to the original sender. Under this system the user of the cash-on-delivery service will be in a position to take full advantage of the high weight limits and the special rates applicable to railway transport. ’ ’ In collaboration with the railway companies, the Postmaster-General has arranged that for rail parcels there shall be practically no weight limit. As this part of the scheme is regarded as experimental, it will be confined during the first year to the railways of Great Britain, and will not apply to Ireland, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands. Another important innovation is that from April 30 the maximum amount which can be collected by a postman will be raised from £5 to £lO. An explanatory leaflet issued by the Post Office states: — The sender will be required to indicate on the cover of the packet—preferably by means of a special adhesive label which can be obtained free of charge at the post office —his own name and address and the amount of the trade charge, in addition to the name and address of the addressee. The packet must be posted at a money order post office, and at the time of posting the sender must fill up the special trade charge form which will bo handed to him. Postage and registration fees must be prepaid on the packet in the ordinary way, in addition to the cash-on-delivery fee, which varies according to the amount to bo collected, viz., 10s, 4; £l, 6d; £2, 8d; £5, lOd; and 2d for each additional £5 or portion of £5, up to a maximum of 2 S for £4O. The C.O.D. fee must be paid in stamps on the trade charge form.