Your committee on library post reports as follows:
The present status of federal legislation is thus given in a letter
received from the Hon. John J. Esch, member of Congress from Wisconsin.
"The post office appropriation bill, as it passed the House
recently, provided for a rural parcels post with rates of 5 cents
per pound, and 1 cent for each additional pound up to eleven
pounds. These rates, however, are confined to parcels emanating in
the town from which the route runs, or along such route, with the
right of interchange of packages from route to route. As few books
exceed a pound in weight this would mean a charge of 5 cents. The
post office appropriation bill is now before the Senate. What
action it will take remains to be seen. The House bill contained a
provision for the appointment of a commission to investigate the
whole subject of a general parcels post, the commission to make
its report to Congress by the opening of the next regular session
in December."