Packed Parcels

Packed parcels, the name for a consignment of goods, consisting of one large parcel made up of several small ones (each bearing a different address) collected from different persons by the immediate consignor (a carrier), who unites them into one for his own profit at the expense of the railway by which they are sent, since the railway company would have been paid more for the carriage of the parcels singly than together. The charging by a railway company of a higher rate for 'packed' than other parcels has been determined frequently to be illegal, see G.W. Ry. Co. v. Sutton, (1869) LR 4 HL 226.