Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1913 — May Have to Bar Eggs In Parcels Post System. [ARTICLE]

May Have to Bar Eggs In Parcels Post System.

Washington, Jan. 2.—Two days’ operation of the parcels post has raised a very great doubt as to whether it will be practicable, as a regular practice, to ship eggs by mail under parcels post regulations. In a good many instances reported to Washington eggs have been broken in shipment, and it is possible that the regulations may have to be revised to eliminate eggs from the articles that may be transported, on the ground that they are too fragile to be handled in that way. Senator Pomerene, of Ohio, today received from Marshall Hill, a poultry dealer of Massillon, 0., a crate of a dozen eggs, more accurately speaking. they were eggs when they started, but when they reached the senator they were an egg omelet. Nearly every egg was smashed in transit and the inside of the box was plastered with the yellow yolks. The eggs were packed in the regulation way with a separate compartment and a tissue paper wrapping for each egg.