Under the provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act any tariff may be changed upon giving thirty days' notice to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Frequently additions and supplements to tariffs are necessary by reason of the changing conditions. The names of stations, for example, are changed; errors are frequently discovered; additions, particularly to commodity tariffs, are found to be necessary in order to cover new business offered to the express carriers; and changes are frequently made in order that discriminations may be corrected, or in order to meet new conditions which constantly arise. Under the order of the Interstate Commerce Commission the rates effective February 1, 1914, are to remain in effect two years; therefore, the tariffs and classifications which show these rates should remain more stable than commodity tariffs, which were not included in the investigation of the Interstate Commerce Commission. It may be found that there are certain minor errors in the order of the Commission, such as the incorrect spelling of station names. Other corrections will be necessary by reason of the change in the names of stations, and possibly some rates may be found out of line, which the Commission will authorize the express companies to modify. A careful perusal of these tariffs will enable the reader to obtain a good general idea of express rates, but, wherever it is possible for him to do so, he should examine the public files of express tariffs, as they will enable him to understand better the different forms of express issues. It is obviously impossible in a work of this size to illustrate all or even the principal forms of commodity tariffs. CONTENTS II. ORGANIZATION, CAPITALIZATION, AND EARNINGS OF SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL COMPANIES 59 XIX. PARCEL POST AND THE EXPRESS BUSINESS, The Future of the Express Companies Under the New Rates and with Parcel Post Competition..317 Comparisons of Parcel Post and Express Rates..319 Effect of Parcel Post on Express Revenue.... ...323 FIRST EXPRESS ADVERTISEMENT BOSTON AND NEW YORK Express Car.' Important to Merchants, Brokers, Booksellers, and Others. W. F. HARNDEN, For the last five years conductor and passenger-clerk for the Boston and Worchester Railroad Company, has made arrangements with the Providence Railroad and New York Steamboat Companies, to run a car through from Boston to New York, and vice versa, four times a week, commencing on Monday, 4th March. He will accompany a car himself, for the purpose of purchasing goods, collecting drafts, notes and bills. Orders of all kinds promptly attended to. He will take charge of all small packages of goods, bundles, &c., that may be intrusted to his care, and see them safely delivered, and attend to forwarding merchandise of all descriptions (except that prescribed by the Railroad Companies), if directed to his care. All packages, bundles, &c., must be sent to office, No. 9 Court street, Boston, or No. 1 Wall street, New York. Orders may be left at J. W. Clark & Co.'s, 6 City Hall; Colman's Pavilion, Tremont street; E. C. Stowell, 7 Elm street, Boston; and at J. P. Smith & Co.'s, 30 Wall street, New York. Will leave Boston Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and New York the same days. Boston, February 23, 1839. 1 The "Car" was merely a hand valise. No through cars were run at that time. All through traffic was transferred to vessels at Providence. |