Caption: Mount Middleman is no longer an insurmountable barrier between producer and consumer

Illustration shows that a freight train has departed a railroad station labeled "Producer" in the countryside and is passing through a tunnel labeled "Parcels Post Tunnel" in a mountain labeled "Mount Middleman" that has the figure of a man on its side;…

Caption: What the parcels post would mean to them both

Illustration shows two men, one labeled "Producer", using a pulley system labeled "U.S. Parcels Post" to ship a package labeled "Direct to Consumer" beyond the reach of a man labeled "Express Co." straddling a "R.R." station and a man labeled "Middleman" standing in front of a "Commission…