The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1913-01-10
MAIL FILLS
POST OFFICE
Thousands of Parcel Post
Packages.
Improperly Wrapped and Stamp
ed and Many are
Held Up.

Washington, january 1.-TWO days OPP
Grafton os the nav parcel post system
has loaded post offices with freak snip
ments, thousands OF packages so impr22-
erly wrapped or rlckei THAI they can
no. l,e transported and tlouGlnds nf
Others stamped with ordinary postage
instead of the dis.tnrai.e parcel post
stamps.
Most of TIE freaks have GNne uIrC,
but the two hitter classes will have 70
take the slow course through tire dad
letter office. Post Office officials, how
e far. are concidnet that all the wrinkles
in the nsw system will be ironed out
with few days practice on the part
of the public.
Prs,s:d mt Taft received enc of tc
first packages. l. contained n'l'er
Spoons from John Wanamaker of Phil
alelphia. Postmaster GeneuIl HitcA-
Geek has r,aeivd several packages.
EGGS from Long Island, 500 miles
away. alssad Though tn looll Pos
Office safely. Officials dsclased many
other fragile shipments, properly RltE-
ell. ware being handled without mis-
hap all over the county.
All classes Of MERCHANDISE aud al
mail matter formerly Indicated as
four;h class continued ITO pour tluoug7
thu pcst Offices of the country, nGicl;-
ing 10 officials tia. TIE nav Ssrvi"a
is destined 20 have a phenomena
growth.
Postmaster General Hrrhcc,k uri'y
issu an order amending tile parcel
post regulations which would bar tr)m
the s=- &c. rsvolv,rs, whether in d.
tach 4 parts or Otherwise,
MAIL $50 PARCELS OF EGGS.
New York, January .2-Rspauts re-
c=Lv-l today from all nvnila,bia soNcr'
SOW mat the public is taking h)'I
% tre NV parcel prst System win
none tn-~gy than was suspected. Not
only are the clerks in the postal re-
caivng SIN ions and the automobile
and truck carriers having much more
TO do, but tine railway mail clerks are
finding a real rush in handling the
new service.
1t a,9psars that one of the most favor
81 o'ssacts of shpmnct as well as one
Of the most difficult to handle. is egSS.
many cas:s of which have bean sent
from outlying towns. From present e2-
pearanoes small shippers are Nlive to
the advpnns,s undsr the newly organic
ed branch of the postal s.rvice.
The biggest shipment of eggs which
has vat baen handled lolally was sent
out by b. F. Yoakum, head of p'le ROCK
Island Railroad sys.=m, from his 6ar:n
in FlaTmingdale, l.. /. To signallze the
Inauguration of the system, Yoakum
shipped $50 parcels of eggs to promi-
nant men throughout tire country.
There were appaifnly about "a dozen
eggs in each package. PEesid6nt-elect.
Wilson, GOV. Sulzer uni e;cry congress
man in New York and Nqw Jersey Were
among those favorad. so tar as was
LEARNED not a single egg WIS broken en
rouua
PARCEL POST BRINGS SCRAMBLED
EGGS
OmAha, Nsb., january IA package
Of hlrm pn,dure by pn;cel post WAS re-
ceived in Omaha today. Whsn mailel
it c2utaln a two dozan fresh country
eggs shipped fom ATton. Ia. When
opened here the parcel wns a mass o:
unc IoNsd scHsmbled eggs and egg sheils.
OF the two dozen eggs. just fqur twe'e
in condition to he handed with tie
hands and the other twenty were 'slrap-
ed Typ with a spoon. .Haft ton of
mail matter was smeared with yellow
and the address on the package WAS UNI
readable. The eggs had BEEN packed in
an ordinary dashboard box and the mail
clerks are wondering how the four re-
mainsd intact.