MEN BY PARCEL POST
A constructional engineer recently completed a journey by air mail to Northern Rhodesia. As, in the ordinary way, the air mails do not carry passengers, lie had to be sent, as a parcel, at the rate of 7d for the first Jo*, and 6d for each additional Joz. Strange ‘ parcels ” previously sent by aeroplane have included a cow, a lion, and hives of bees. The last-named type of consignment is not always popular. On at least one occasion the bees escaped and the pilot was badly stung. Live bees will also he accepted by 1 lie British Post Office for transmission within the United Kingdom by letter or parcel post, on condition I hat they are packed so as to avoid any risk of injury to postal servants' or other postal packets. But, as a rule, no living creature may he sent, hy post unless with the special permission of the Postmaster-General.
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Evening Star, Issue 21638, 6 February 1934, Page 4
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156MEN BY PARCEL POST Evening Star, Issue 21638, 6 February 1934, Page 4
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