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Show BILL PROVIDING FOR PARCELS INTRODUCED IN THE HOUSE Washington, June 18. To reduce the postal rates, improve the postal service, and Increase postal revenues, Representative Bennett, of 'New York, yesterday Introduced a bill providing for a parcels post within the various rural free delivery routes. The measure meas-ure proposes to reduce the ate on general gen-eral merchandise from one cent lor each ounce to one cent for each two ounces. On parcels one-twenty-fourth of a cubic foot In size, not exceeding one pound In weight, for delivery within a rural free delivery route, the bill provides pro-vides a postage rate of one cent. A . graduated scale of rates Is provided for parcels, up to one cubic foot in size and 23 pounds In weight, which shall pay ten cents postage. The measure also provides that ten dollars shall be paid by the postal service for tho loss of each registered package upon which no value has been declared, and that the full amount shall be paid in all cases where the value has been declared. It fixes the rates for registered mail at eight cents for-packages for-packages valued at $25 and two centa additional for each $50 additional In value. ' |