old supplies. See W. S.
Jevons, "A State Parcel Post," _Contemporary Review_, London, 1879, p.
209.

[411] See graphs at pp. 371 and 372, _infra._

[412] The estimates on which this statement is based are given below at
p. 311, Cf. Leslie Stephen, loc. cit. p. 420.

[413] See p. 75, _supra._

[414] _Annual Reports of the Postmaster-General_, Washington, 1890 and
1891.

[415] I.e. under the Government frank, for the fraudulent use of which a
penalty of $300 is imposed.

[416] "In point of fact there are but four strong objections to the
parcels post, and they are the four great express companies, who would
be just as well off with an 8- or 11-pound parcel post if the heavy
freight of the Executive Departments and the immense packages of bogus
serial books that are now thrown upon the mails were shut out and turned
over to the express companies, where they belong."--_Report of the
Postmaster-General_, Washington, 1891, p. 114.

[417] Ibid., 1904, p. 2.

[418] Cf. _supra_, p. 127, note 2.

[419] "When the British Government can secure better mail facilities in
the United States for the English people than Uncle Sam can secure in
this country for our own people, it is time that somebody be heard
from."--Mr. Hartranft, Secretary of the Postal Progress League of
California.

[420] "The difficulty now lies in the absence of a connected
transportation conduit, which will receive the small shipment at the
farm and convey it, like a letter, direct to the consumer."--Hon. David
J. Lewis, _Postal Express_, 1912, 62nd Congress, 2nd Sess., Doc. No.
379, p. 5.

[421] Ibid.

[422] Mr. S. Norvell: "I found the conditions in Europe very much worse
than I had anticipated. I found the way the people lived was entirely
different from what I had anticipated, and no man who has simply lived
in this country and has read in a general way about the conditions in
Europe can appreciate how the people live in Europe without going among
them and studying the subject. The business of Europe, while in the
aggregate, of course, it is very large, as a matter of fact is a peanut
business."--_Hearings before the Sub-Committee on Parcel Post_,
Washington, 1912, vol. ii. p. 496. Cf. _Address at Atlantic City, N.J._,
16th November 1911.

[423] "The department believed and still believes that the parcel post,
in time, will become an important factor in improving and cheapening the
food supply of the great cities. Hence, on March 25, 1914, t