The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1880-06-03
Yours, with friendship,
NEW POSTAL REGULATIONS.

Some funny chap has issued The follow.
ing; Postmaster Geul. Key assures IA
that au arrangement has been perfected
by which letters without postage will be
Immediately forwsrded-lo the dead let
ter office.
A pair Of onions will 20 for two scents,
Parties are compelled TO lick their own
postage stamps and envelopes tho post.
master cannot be compelled to do this.
Nitro-glycerue and dynamite must be
forwarded at risk Of sender. II they
should blow up in the postmaster's hands
nc could not be held responsible,
When letters are received bearing no
direction, the parties for whom they are
intended will signify the fact 10 the post
master, that he may at once forward.
A stamp Of the foot 10 not sufficient TO
carry letter,
Spring chickens that are old enough to
vote, when sent by mail, should be en-.
closed in irou.bound boxes to save their
tender bodies from injury,
II is unsafe to mail apple or fruit trees
with fruit on them, as some Of The Post
masters have a weakness for such things.
Bottles of whiskey should be we'll corked.
II is earnestly requested that lovers
con1ne 10 their gushing rhspsodes to
the inside of the envelope.
Ducks cannot be sent through the
mails, when alive. Their qusoking
would disturb tho slumbers OF the clerks
on the postal cars. This rule, however
does not apply TO duck ofa bonnet,
When watches are cent through The
mails II the sender will put notice on
the out side the Postmasters will wind up
and keep in running order.
Poems on Spring and Beautiful Snow
are ridgidy excluded from the mails.
This will bo joyful news to the editors OF
the laud.
Old maids, feather beds, and inflated
balloons are unmsilsbe.
John Smith gets bis mail from GA, $40
Post offices, hence letter directed to
John Smith, United States, will reach
him
When candy ia sent through the mails
il is earnestly requested that both ends oi
the package be left opeu 80 that the en-.
ployees OF the Post Office may test It's
quality.
Eggs are not msiabe unless fresh and
should they become chickens on transit
they become the property Of The Post OH
&C Dept
When you enclose a money order in q
letter always write foil aud explicit di. |
ree,ions In the same letter, so that any
person getting the letter can draw the
money.
Alligators over ten feet in length are
not allowed to be transmitted by mail.
Young ladies' who desire TO send their
Saratoga trunks by mail TO watering
places during The coming season should
iotify the Postmaster General at once.
They must not be over seven feet long
by thirteen feet high.
Garlic, Onions, AssAfoedIls, Gum Cam.
ohor, Switzer, Limbsrger, aud sspsago
ent through the malls should be left
,pen at the ends.
Butter and lard are mailable only in
ummer months Wrap them 10 told
u tissue paper open at both ends, the
be butter must have al the hAir combed
,ut u II.
When you enclose money TO any OF the
,sriies ou the Official list Of frauds please
ay little prayer.
Letter carriers are required 10 have
,snetraiion enough 20 know when letters
bould be delivered TO Jsslons wives
Iebcs II be delivers q letter from your
.i'l 10 your vile you cAn have him dis
hafged.
The plaeing Of stamps upside down on
fttrts prohibited. severrl posima.fers
Isre recently been seriously Injured
gbile tying 70 stand on their he.ds 10
auce stamps pisced 10 fsis msHnrf.
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