The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-12-15
MAIL FOR OTHER
LANDS
PACKAGES OF ALMOST ANY SIZE
MAY BE SENT FROM WENAT-
CHEZ TO ANY COUNTRY FOR
~ CENTS A POUND.

For IL cents a pound a person can
send pretty nearly any sort OF Christ
mas present he wants to pretty nearly
any country in the world. 1t can be
big and clumsy and heavy, almost
anything short of house and lot, and
yet it will go for IL cents pound
postage
Uncle Sam does not say that it is
better for his dutiful people to send
presents to foreign countries than for
them to send the absent loved ones
money with which to buy presents,
but he gives them an opportunity to
send the presents if they want to.
and he probably knows that a pres
emit doesn't seem like real present
if the recipient has to buy it him
self, in spite of the cynic's sugges-
tioR that Christmas presents are usu-
ally things that person does not
want. What would the old world be
without a few of those dear, useless
presents?
Government Gives Chance.
So Uncle Sam gives his subjects
that have cousins in Germany or I'M
Giles in Ireland, or daughters travelling
in France, or sons fishing out of no.
tel windows in Venice, an opportunity
to send them presents by mail.
Quite a number of people have TAX
en- advantage of this opportunity in
the past, says Postmaster Hull, but
not so many as should have done so.
The thing needs to be talked up, he
says. The possibility of sending the
present must first appeal to people
before they will plan on it.
Must Find Out How.
But the person who wants to send
away a present would better first go
to the postoffice and find out how to
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to know. and there are some coun-
tries to which presents may not be
sent
The package must not be dropped
into a mail box, but must be handed
to the postmaster or one of the mail
clerks. 1t must be plainly marked,
Parcels post" The address must
be plainly written, and the return ad-
dress also, in such a manner that it
!. will not be confused with the address
of the person to whom the package
is sent
How to Measure 1t.
The best thing to measure the
package with, if there is any sus-
picion that it is too big, is a six-foot
tape. After the length has been
measured, what is left of the tape
is the maximum girth the package
can have. In other words, If it is
two feet long It cannot be more than
three feet around There is an ex-
ception to this rule. and the excep-
ton is that no package sent to point
in Colombia, Costa Rica or Mexico
may be more than two feet in length.
Must Make Declaration.
The sender must make a declara-
ton OF what is in the package, and
must fill out a tag describing the
contents and their value. There is
a space on the tag, also, to enter
the amount of the customs charges
This tag is attached to the package.
The package must be securely put
up, but so put up that the govern
wish to. without destroying the pack
ing Boxes with covers screwed or
nailed on may be used, or the pack
age may be sewed up, provided the
officials have a chance to see into
it before the sewing is done
The postage, II cents for each
pound or fraction of a pound. must
be paid in advance Packages sent
to the Netherlands or Uruguay may
be registered for cents
The countries TO which such pack
ages may be sent, according to the
LIST at the postofiice. are: Australia
Austria, Bahamas, Barbados. Bel
GUM, Bermuda, Bolivia, British Gut
ana. Chile, Colombia. Costa Rica
Danish West Indies. Denmark. Ecua-
dor, France, Germany. Great Britain
Cincluding Ireland), Guatemala, Hon
duras, Hongkong. Italy, Jamaica
Japan. Leeward Islands, Mexico
Netherlands, Newfoundland New
Zealand, Nicaragua. Norway, Peru
Salvador, Sweden, Trinidad, Uruguay
Venezuela and Windward Islands.
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