Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1918 — NO PARCEL POST TO FRAN P. O. DEPARTMENT OR[?] [ARTICLE]

NO PARCEL POST TO FRAN P. O. DEPARTMENT OR[?]

After this date—April Is parcel post packages can be acc for mailing to members of American Expeditionary forc« Europe except they contain such articles as are being sent ; written request of the addresse proved by his pcmnnanding c Such approved written request be enclosed in the package. Tl der is issued at the request c War Department, which read follows: “In future, shipments of ar tides to members of the Am Expeditionary Forces abroad w limited to those articles which been requested by the individi whom same are bo be shipped, request havin been approve his regimental or higher con der.” The reason for the new ord< been foreshadowed by comi for some time that valuable space was being used by the ment of tons and tons of article were not necessary and that not needed by the soldiers * and thus depriving them of things that were really nece In commenting on the ordei Third Assistant Postmaster G says: “The Postoffice Department ] lieves that this action is pro I by military necessity and thi I public will cheerfully acquiesi j it. Postmasters are hereby ir I ted to enforce it rigidly.’