Pleasant Grove Review | 1949-02-11 | Page 5 | Postoffice Rulings Allow Weird Items to Pass in Mails

Postoffice Rulmgs Allow Weird Items To Pass In Mails WASHINGTON. You can't send a snake, a rat, a mouse or a rabbit rab-bit but you can wrap up a horned toad and Uncle Sam's carriers will deliver it for a few stamps. In the Post Office's "bible," the book of postal laws and regulations, regula-tions, there is an intriguing list oi livestock not generally known to be mail items. The particular choice of "livestock" may seem to be a matter of whimsy today but the list has been in the book at least 40 years. Worms have been shown considerable cons-iderable favoritism, judging from the variety mentioned. However, any old kind won't do. They have to be bldod, earth or meal specimens. Planaria are okeh, too, if you know one worm family from another. They're a genus of fresh water flat- , worms. You can also package up a mess of newts, hydras and hellgram-mites. hellgram-mites. Newts are small salamanders. salaman-ders. Hydras are water mites. Hellgrammites are one of those $64 questions unless you happen to be a fisherman. Webster defines them as "the aquatic larva of a large North American insect much used as a fish bait by anglers." Leeches, tadpoles, lizards and frogs are acceptable.