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Show iflSEIN PEEL JPOST WEIGHT LIMIT iterstate Commerce Com-niission Com-niission Agrees With View of Attorney General. I I "old may be shipped s d 'bjections Raised to the Pro-posed Pro-posed Change in Rates on Books and Catalogues. k WASHINGTON. Deo. 6. Postmastor gr. encral Burleson b proposals to Increase 1 le weight limits of parqcl post pack-ifn pack-ifn In the Hrst and second zones from ,'bj. Fenty to fifty pounds, to admit hooka ij t'( the parcel post and to reduce rates hi ijtho third, fourth, tlfth and sixth zones, ea approved today by tho Interstate 3, immorce commission. 3! Tho maximum weight of parcels to all ines beyond the second was Increased om eleven to twenty pounds, "? -Tho commission's "consent" to tho pro-1 pro-1 i ed changes were transmitted In three to v Iters from Chairman Clark to Postmaslor i J Bncral Burleson. Tho approved changes i "rates and weights to be -In effect Jan-ij." Jan-ij." i!ry 1. 19H, follows: Wl !To reduce the rates for the third zone 7 cents for the first pound and 5 3 for each additional pound to 6 cents :ho first pound and 2 cents for each Llonal pound. reduco the rates for tho fourth zone 8 cents for tho first pound and 6 3 for each additional pound to 7 conts he first pound and 4 cents for each Llonal pound. reduco the rates from tho fifth zone "m 9 cents for the first pound and 7 ttHnts for each additional pound to 8 'Kts for tho first pound and C cents for H:h nddttlon.il pound- To reduce tho rates for the sixth zone m 10 cents for the first pound and 0 Hits for each additional pound to 9 cents h the first pound and 3 cents for each Hlltlonal pound. Question of Revenue. Vlt sooms obvious." says tho commis-Vri, commis-Vri, "that the service to the public will v promoted by these changes provided Hb revenue from tho service in not less Bin tho cost thereof. Your experiences o statistics seem to show clearly that rovenuo will not be less than the cost Kthc service PBjJWe can conceive of no opposition to I Increased weights and reduced rates osed except from tho carriers that sport tho malls. Wo havo had some ctlons from them on tho ground that Increased weight should not bo pored por-ed until provision for additional com-ation com-ation to tho carriers hns been made." Us provided by tho postmaster geu-wlih geu-wlih the consent of tho commin-"that commin-"that tho rate of postage on par-conlalnlng par-conlalnlng books weighing eight es or less shall be 1 cent for each ounces, or fractional part thereof, on thoso weighing In excess of eight es the zone parcel rates shall ap-tls ap-tls Is to bo effective March 15. 191-4. actions Raised, rlous objections to the proposed geo in the rates on books and cata-is cata-is were inado chiefly by mailers of y catalogues, but the commission it feels that the changes ure in the est of the public generally, nscnt also was given by the com-on com-on to the admission of shipments of gold bullion and gold dust in Alaska to and from Alaska In packages hlng not more than eleven pounds, rate of postage fixed Is 2 cents an e or fraction thereof for all dis-'ro dis-'ro postn aster general Issued an or-effeetive or-effeetive August 15 last, increasing weight limit In the first and second s from eleven to twenty pounds and jnally reducing the rates of postage theso zoT.cs. and slated at that time thlH stp was in the nature of an rlmcm. " said tho statement issued ;lU by tho postolflce department :ord Kept. o kfter these changes had been In cf-for cf-for who t'm a record was kept iiokagcs handled in a number of large escntamo postofficcs throughout the e.l States, and the reports received ) Xhigp oifces show that the changes he ce'Mof had been greatly appro-id appro-id !: ho public. Tho number of par-handled par-handled in tho first and second zones & these changes became effective v an increase of approximately 10 cent Tlie average weight has also ca-ed from 1.2 to 1.7 pounds per pnr-and, pnr-and, notwithstanding tho great reduc-in reduc-in rates in the first and second zones, average packago has increased from rents a parcel to 10 cents." :nJO statement says of the change rc-ting rc-ting to books that it "has strongly been rged by circulating libraries, schools, Heges and publishers ever since the itabllshment of the parcel post service, 1 the present restrictive weight limit id rates on books are prohibitive to fgreat extent except in the case of ltaJoguc3, that it was not deemed ad-sable ad-sable to place the order changing the unification of books in effect on Jan-iiry Jan-iiry l, as it was desired to give a; least tree months' notice to firms whose italogucs wer; now being printed." iC , |