Show Parcel Post Limit Raised to 40 Pounds The parcel post weight limit was raised raised rais rals ed cd to 40 pounds for shipments between first class post offices effective July 1 I Postmaster John Evan Jones reported today Vernal Is a first class post office THE MAXIMUM parcel post weight limit was increased from 30 pounds on shipments between the larger post offices of- of flees in the third through eighth p parcel post zones that is more than miles On packages sent locally and to offices 1 in parcel post zones one and two the ceiling has been 40 pounds The maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum size of packages sent between all first-class first offices remains 72 inches in combined length and girth THE SIZE limit on parcels sent to toor toor toor or from smaller offices rural or star routes military post offices and all Alaskan Alaskan Alas Alas- kan and nd Hawaiian post offices stays at 70 pounds with a combined length and girth of inches Postmaster Jones added Public Law 89 enacted September 20 1966 1906 authorized the postal service to increase weight and size limits limits limits' on shipments shipments shipments ship ship- ments between larger cities On Oz July 1 of 1970 and 1971 the length and girth limits are scheduled to rise to Jo 78 and 84 inches respectively on shipments between between be be- tween first-class first post offices FIGHTS G TS ALASKAN FIRES Dan Gardner Bureau of Land Management Management Manage Manage- ment range aid left leCt June 26 to fight fire in Alaska Mr Gardner will be assigned assigned as as- signed to a fire supervisory position for three weeks THE FOREST fire situation in interior Alaska is more serious than at any time in recent history Over a a. a half million acres have been burned since the first of the year Numerous homes have been burned and several native villages are threatened I |