Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1878 — The New Maii Law. [ARTICLE]

The New Maii Law.

There is a ruling of the Postoffice Department which will come into force on the first of October which is not generally known but which is very interesting. After that data all third Mass matter can be registered at the same rate as that charged for registering letters, viz: ten cents.— Third . lass matter comprises all articles of wearing apparel, &c., and the rate for carring is one cent for each ounce, in packages whose weight is limited to four pohnds. You can order a dozen shirts in San Francisco,, and have them registered, thus in/ suring against loss, and the totalcost for transportation will not exceed from 25 to 35 cents. There ts another grade of third-class matter, such as bonds, pamphlets, ate., for which the charge is one cent for every two ounces. This also can be registered.— The public will find this new system to be wonderfully convenient, and will make use of the mails in sending thousands of packages which are now carried at high prices by the various express companies. The latter will undoubtedly object to this interference with their business, but the only result will be an immense increase in the bulk of the mails and the employment of additional force in the department to handle it. You can send just as many packages as you please and register either of them, the o ily restriction being that each must weigh but four pounds. A stovepipe elbow, whereof one end had run over itself with a dray, wo’d not excite the admiration of any man, yet it is the faithful copy of the frame of the prevailing style es lovely women’s fascinating summer hat.

Hawkeye.