Gunnison Valley News | 1919-10-31 | Page 3 | Post Offices Liken Unto Miniature Barnyards as Farmers Ship by Mail

Post Offices Liken Unto Miniature Barnyards as Farmers Ship by Mail Cat calls and barks of penned-up canines will mingle with the crowing of fowls in the country post offices in the near future. Live things of noisy age may now be sent by rural parcels post as a result of the new ruling of of the postmaster general, extending the service which heretofore has rejected re-jected live things except germs' in sealed bottles, and one-day-old chicks. The new service is "confined exclusively ex-clusively to rural motor vehicle routes and country motor express routes and then only when delivery can be effected effect-ed on the route where mailed or on a connecting rural motor vehicle truck route or country motor express route." Interpretation of this ruling does not permit the receiving of fowls and live animals for shipment between cities where delivery by train and numerous handlings would be necessitated. Delivery De-livery must be made within 48 hours. Fowls and animals must be carefully and securely crated.