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Show WEIGHT INCREASED IN PARCEL POST NKW YORK, Feb. 1 2 Postmaster eneral Burleson recently signed an agreement with the postal administration administra-tion of France increasing the maximum -weight limit on parcel post packages exchanged between the United States and Franc from eleven pounds to L twenty-two pounds. This includes not only continental United States and continental France, but the island possessions pos-sessions of'the United States and the colonies of France, that is. Corsica, Algeria, Tunis, French Morocco and the principality of Monaco. This arrangement doubling the maxT- J mum weight limit of our parcel post to France has been the subject of negotiations nego-tiations for several months. Including personal conferences between postal officials of the two countries, and is a further step In the efforts of the post-office post-office department to increase to exporters ex-porters and other patrons of there service ser-vice the facilities afforded through the international parcel post. The agreement above referred to also includes provision for the Introduction of the Insurance feature in connection with the parcel post between the United Suites and France at such time as the necessary authority is obtained ob-tained by the United States postoffice department, through gilation. aad it is hoped that this faoriity may be made available to the patrons of the service in both countries early during the fiscal fis-cal )?ar commencing July 1, 1921. |