Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-02-28
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE GIVES
ALL NEEDED INFORMATION
FOR ALL ITS PATRONS.
SAVE This PAPER FOR REFERENCE
AS This New Mode of Express Has
Come to Stay 1t Behooves Every
body to Become Familiar
With Its Workings.

post offices are not sufficiently ex
planatory as to the parcel post regula-
tions. About the best compilation of
the rules and regulations is the one
which comprises all the essential de-
tails. Subscribers should cut these
out and post them on the wall:
Sec. 8. The law requires that on
and after January l. 1913, the post
age on all matter of the fourth class
must be prepaid by distinctive parcel
post stamps affixed. Postmasters can
not receive for mailing parcels that
do not bear such stamps.
2. Parcel post stamps are not valid
for the payment of postage on matter
of the first, second and third classes,
and, when used for that purpose, the
matter to which they are affixed shall
be treated as Held for postage" as
prescribed in section Q.
Where MallabIe.
Sec. 10. Parcels must be mailed at
a post office. branch post office, named
or lettered stations, or such numbered
stations as may be designated by the
postmaster, or delivered to rural or
other carrier duly authorized to re-
ceive such matter.
2. Parcels collected on star routes
must be deposited in the next post
office at which the carrier arrives and
postage charged at the rate from that
office.
Preparation for Mailing.
Sec. II. Parcels must be prepared
for mailing in such manner that the
contents can be easily examined
2. A parcel must not be accepted
for mailing unless it bears the name
and address of the sender preceded
by the word From"
g. In addition to the name and
address of the sender, which is re-
quired, it is permissible to write or
print on the covering of a parcel
or on a tag or label attached to it,
the occupation of the sender, and
to indicate in a small space by
means of marks, letters, numbers,
names or other brief description, the
character of the parcel, but ample
space must be left on the address
side for the full address in legible
characters and for the necessary
postage stamps. Inscriptions such as
Merry Christmas, please do not
open until Christmas" Happy New
Year" with best Wishes" and the
like, may be placed on the covering
of the parcel in such manner as not
to interfere with the address.
Limit of Weight and Size.
Sec IS. If a parcel exceeds eleven
pounds in weight or is greater in
size than seventy-two inches in length
and girth combined, it must be re-
fused, no matter how small the excess
may be in either case
no laxu haf Il
age to De admitted to the parcel post
snail not exceed seventy-two inches
in combined legnth and girth. In
measuring the length the greatest DIS
lance in a straight line between the
two ends of the parcel shall be taken,
while the girth is the actual meas
urement Oy tape encircling the par
ccl at it's thickest part.
UNAVAILABLE Matter.
sec. 10. The following matter is
declared non-mailable (see secs. 211,
Pig and PIT of the Criminal Code of
the United States approved March A,
1900:
l. Matter manifestly obscene,
lewd or lascivious; articles intended
for preventing conception or for pro
curing abortion; articles intended for
after otherwise mailable by law, the
outside cover or wrapper of which
bears any delineations or language
of a libelous, scurrilous, defamatory
or threatening character.
2. Spirituous, vinous. matted, fer
mented or other Intoxicating liquors
of any kind; poisons OF every kind
and articles and compositions con
&c "a
in sec. 19); poisonous animals, in
sects and reptiles; explosives of every
kind; infammable materials (Which
are held to include matches, kero
sene oil, gasoline, naphtha, benzine
turpentine, denatureds alcohol, etc.
internal machines and mechanical
chemical or other devices or compo
sitions which may ignite or explode
disease germs or scabs Except as
prescribed in sec. 36); and other nat
ural or artificial articles, composition:
or materials of whatever kind, which
may kill or in any wise injure Of
damage the mail or other property.
sec. II. Live or dead (and no
stuffed) animals, birds or poultry Eek
cept as prescribed in secs. 20 ant
34); raw hides or pelts, guano or an.
article having bad odor, shall not b.
admitted to the mails.
Packing of Parcels.
Sec 49, Medicines composed whol
ly or part of poison or poisons, AM
anesthetic agents which are not out
wardly or of their own force danger
GUS or injurious to life, health o
property, and not in themselves. ur
mailable (see Sec. 16) when .Packe
as prescribed in Sections 81, % an
30, and the package bears the nam
and address of the manufacturer o
dealer in the article mailed, may b
transmitted in the domestic mail