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Show Send No Elephants By Parcel Post After the San Francisco fire and earthquake of 1906 the Post Office Department stretched its regulations to allow messages to be carried out written on bricks, shingles and strips of wallpaper postage waived. Our own Vernal, Utah is said to have built its first modern business block some three decades dec-ades ago out of bricks mailed in by parcel post. It remained, however, says the , Christian Science Monitor, for f hat remarkable postal system of Britain to send by mail a pony : with 84 cents' worth of stamps ' affixed to his flank. And for that equally remarkable species, the British postmaster, to walk the pony five miles to the addressee ad-dressee in order to save the send-I send-I er the almost $5 more it would I have cost had it been transported transport-ed by truck. "A lovely day for a walk," commented Postmaster George Cmith, "but I hope nobody gets the idea of mailing an elephant." "Neither snow, nor rain, nor gloom of night . . . " |