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Show THE SIZE OF POSTAL PACKACES INCREASED Postmaster General Burleson ordered 'that the size limit of packages for ; packages for parcel post shipment be j increased to a combined length and girth of 84 inches, which will permit t the maili g of standard sized fruit and berry crates. The old limit was 72 ! inches length and girth, and there has ! been a widespread demand for its in-i in-i crease. ! The postmaster general also authorized author-ized the establishment of a receipt system sys-tem for parcel post packages similar to that employed by express companies, j "The new regulation. " says a department depart-ment statement, "provides that on payment pay-ment of 1 cent the po-tmaster at the mailing office may give the render of an ordinary parcel of fourth class mail a |