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Show XEW PAHCKLS POST HULKS IN FOKC't; Somo tlmo ago the postofnee department depart-ment Increased tho weight limit and reduced the postage so that you can send fifty pounds any place In Utah for G4 cents, and small weight packages pack-ages proportionately. In Bomo cases it is putting freighting concerns out of business, ns tho postal rate Is cheaper than the freight rate. A new regulation1, intended to further fur-ther the efforts to reduce the cost of living by means ot tho advantages offered of-fered by tho parcels post, has been Issued by Postmaster General Burleson. Burle-son. Tho now system will add to tho parcels par-cels post all the advantages of the express within tho first two zones. An actual express service will bo performed per-formed by tho postal department In pircclB weighing twenty pounds. A ijtutoment issued by tho department t says: H "Postmaster Qcncrnl llurleson hn H Just extended tho postal laws and H regulations In such n manner as will H provo to be a great boon to farmtri and truckors, who will, under tho neir H regulations, bo able to ship their pro- duco by parcels post in a less exptn- H dive manner than heretofore has been H required under tho old regulations. H "Mutter, eggs, fruits, berries, vege- tables, dressed poultry and other ar- tides in parcola weighing over twenty I pounds and up to fifty pounds for ship- ' mont within tho first and second xonei H approximately ISO miles can now be H packed In boxes and crates similar to thoso generally used when shipping; H oxprosB, as these largo parcels will now bo handlod outsido of mall bagi. "Packages of theso articles weighing ' twenty pounds or leaa aro required at heretofore to bo securely packed In such manner as to bo safely handled in bags with other mall matter." |