Motor Vehicles and Parcel Post to China

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 21, 1916

Motor Vehicles and Parcel Post to China

—Motor vehicles registered in the United States numbered 2,445,664 last year, and $18,245,713 was paid by their owners as registration and license fees. The office of public roads of the Department of Agriculture at Washington announced on July 27 that ninety per cent of the fees, or $16,213,387, was spent for building and maintenance of county and State roads. The number of motor vehicles averaged one registration for every forty-four persons in the United States.

—An agreement, the result of over three years’ negotiations on the part of the United States, provides parcel post service between the latter country and China, beginning the first of the present month. Packages up to eleven pounds may be sent from any post office in the United States to any post office in China at the rate of twelve cents a pound. Heretofore, packages of merchandise, other than trade samples under twelve ounces in weight, could not be sent by mail from this country to China, except to a limited number of places that could be reached through foreign post offices maintained there.