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Show NEW CHARGES TO BE MADE FOR EXPRESS Agent L. E. Vincent of the American Amer-ican Railway Express Co., announced an-nounced today that the express companies com-panies plan to ostahlish a system of charges for the storing of express ex-press shipments refused when tendered ten-dered for delivery or uncalled for. A docket outlining the proposal has been issued for the information of the public, and in due course it will be filed with the Interstate State Commerce commission as an addition to the Express classification classifica-tion to become effective on or about .May 1. The rules and charges will apply to business of this character which the local office has to store owing to the refusal of the consignee to accept ac-cept it when order of delivery is made at which for any other reason not ttie fault of the express company com-pany ennnot be delivered. Three days "free time" win be allowed after which the storage charge will he 10 cents for the first day, five cents for each of the next eight days with a maximum of f0 cents a month for each shipment weighing 100 pounds or less. There will be a regular monthly charge thereafter of .10 cents per month or fraction thereof. On shipments weighing more than 100 pounds this storage charge will be assessed proportionally, any fractional frac-tional part of 1(X pounds to lie computed com-puted as 100 pounds, i. e.. on shipments ship-ments weighing more than 100 pounds and not more than 200 pounds the storage charge will be twice that shown above on a 100 pound shipment. The carrier is required re-quired to give proper arrival notice to the consignee, sucn notice to bear the same address as appears on the shipment and to retain in its file a duplicate copy of such notice. In the course of business, many controversies arise, during which a consignee may prefer to refuse shipments ship-ments sent to him. The carrier has no alternative but to store the goods and cannot relieve ilself of the shipment ship-ment or of' al! responsibility for it until the parties involved adjust their differences. This may take several months in which the carrier is an innocent bys-andcr having been in! nowise responsible for the non-delivery. The express companies have not heretofore made it a pruetice to assess storage charges on unclaimed .!'Hnients although it ha9 long been a practice with freight and hag-tge hag-tge They contend that the expends expen-ds am', ex.ra labor involved shou'd lie borne, not by express patrons genoi-illy, but by the owners of the goods so stored. |