The Pulaskian., 1917-11-23
LAST SAILING DATE DEC. 5
Official Statement Issued by Post Office Department to Eliminate Confusion Regarding Reg
 ulstions.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.

$auoCo, thS pIlHIlpdI OHe Ol WHICH seems to be that the instructions were sent out piecemeal and that some of the first rules were amended.
 Here Is the official statement on the subject which have just secured from the post office department: Western Newspaper Union.
 Gentlemen: In answer to your inquiry with reference to parcel post packages for the American Expeditionary Forces, beg to advise you as follows:
 Parcel post for soldiers and civilians connected with the American Epedition- ary Forces in France, when carefully packed and properly addressed, will be accepted by all postmasters for direct transmission through the mails. Such parcels may weigh up to seven pounds. Parcels for the soldiers and civilians connected with the American Expedi- tionary Forces may contain anything that Is admissible to the domestic par eel post except perishab bles which may spoil on the long Journey to Europe.
 Parcel post for the American Expe- ditionary Forces need not be packed In wooden boxes. but should be carefully packed in the strongest kind of paste. board box to assure its safe arrival al the front.
 fs h addition to this parcel post service to the troops the war department will undertake to carry Christmas parcels for the American Expeditionary Forces provided such parcels are sent "care the Commanding General, Port of Elm barka6on. Pier l. Hoboken, New ter sey." and are packed In wooden boxes not more than two cubic feet in volume. well strapped and with a hinged or Gcrovy Ion Ci1ch Cshrfctr7aq boxaq rna v be sent to the Commanding Officer, Port of Authorization. either by express or through the mails. and must not exceed 20 pounds In weight. The army will in speet the contents of each box and un- dertake It's delivery from Hoboken to the addressee. The war department will receive Christmas packages up to De. cember 9th.
 Yours very truly.
 OTTO PRAEGER, Second Assistant Postmaster General.
 Parcel Post Limit Seven Pounds.
 It will be noted that parcels weigh. ing seven pounds but no more can be sent through the post office department all the way to France.
 The twenty-pound parcels which are intended for Christmas gifts and which are to be delivered on Christmas day are sent by the war department from it's port of authorization at Hoboken IN. J. These parcels, which must moi exceed twenty pounds In weight, can be sent to the address given in Hobo ken in any way that the sender chooses.
 Of course the post office department has been handling the smaller Christ. mas packages all the way through to France, but in order to insure their de livery on Christmas morning 1t was necessary to mail them by November 15. However, the fact that the mailing was too late for delivery on Christ mas day does not mean that packages cannot still be sent by parcel post They can be sent any day In the veal at the rate of 12 cents for each pound sent, and this rate holds from what ever point in the United States the package is sent.
 How Packages Must Be Addressed
 Packages for the soldiers must b, addressed to the individual, with hi: company and his regiment and ther must be added the words "Americar Expeditionary Forces" It is not nee essary to add the name of the country
 It will be noted that in the instruc tions given above and prepared In tn, second assistant postmaster generari office nothing is said specifically con cerning the kind of things which ma, be sent to the soldiers and civilians connected with the expeditionar, forces. It is perfectly proper to sent sugar, provided it is properly wrapped The reason sugar is spoken of her, is because there seems to have beer some misunderstanding about it.
 Matches must not be sent in any cir cumstances. Neither must anythinl infammable, except, of course, ordi nary packing material, be included nor must there be any chemical ol fresh fruit In the packages. Cand, can go if properly protected iron mashing up and ruining other thing in the mall. Jars of fruit properl, 'BCdfcd duu pkOlCNtCu hEbluSt UT6dh age can be sent. Nothing of an ex plosive nature must be put into tn, parcels.
 It Is necessary that the parcel pos packages weighing up to sever pounds shall be wrapped so that tn, post office authorities may examin their contents. The rules for tn, packages which the war departmen sends are given explicitly in the abov official communication. It is desire, to accentuate the fact that parcels u ito seven pounds in weight can be sen by ordinary parcel post at any time O the year, but that Christmas boxe which are to go by the way of the wa department at the address given abov Wfll not be forwarded if they are re leelved 1t Hoboken later than Decem