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                                                                EXHIBIT 24


                             CALIBER SYSTEM, INC.

                     REGISTRATION STATEMENTS ON FORM S-3


        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned directors
and officers of Caliber System, Inc., an Ohio corporation (the "Company"),
hereby constitutes and appoints Daniel J. Sullivan, Douglas A. Wilson and John
P. Chandler, and each of them, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, as attorneys-in-fact or attorney-in-fact of the undersigned,
for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, to execute and file with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") under the Securities Act
of 1933 one or more Registration Statement(s) on Form S-3 relating to the
registration for sale of one or more series of debt securities (the
"Securities") of the Company, with any and all amendments, supplements and
exhibits thereto (including pre-effective and post-effective amendments or
supplements), to execute and file any and all other applications or other
documents to be filed with the Commission and all documents required to be
filed with any state securities regulating board or commission pertaining to
such Securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement(s) on Form
S-3, with any and all amendments, supplements and exhibits thereto each such
attorney to have full power to act with or without the others, and to have full
power and authority to do and perform, in the name and on behalf of the
undersigned, every act whatsoever necessary, advisable or appropriate to be
done in the premises as fully and to all intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and approving the act
of said attorneys and any of them and any such substitute.

        EXECUTED this 2nd day of July, 1996.



/s/ George B. Beitzel                   /s/ Charles R. Longsworth
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George B. Beitzel                       Charles R. Longsworth


/s/ Richard A. Chenoweth
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Richard A. Chenoweth                    G. James Roush


/s/ Kathryn W. Dindo                    /s/ Daniel J. Sullivan
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Kathryn W. Dindo                        Daniel J. Sullivan


/s/ Norman C. Harbert                   /s/ H. Mitchell Watson Jr.
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Norman C. Harbert                       H. Mitchell Watson Jr.


/s/ Harry L. Kavetas                    /s/ Douglas A. Wilson
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Harry L. Kavetas                        Douglas A. Wilson