Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-26
IMPORTANT POSTAL ORDER.
Letter Rates to he Asked for Papers Who'll
or In Part In Writing

Letter Rates to he Asked for Papers Wholly
or In Part In Writing.
The mercantile community will be
deeply interested in All order issued by
Postmaster General Maynard on Monday
to postmasters throughout the country,
and which goes into effect at the Lancas.
ter Office to-day. 1t revOkes . regulation
made by Postmaster General Key in April,
1879, and in effect requires that all com.
mcrcial documents, wholly or in part in
writing, shall be subject to the ordinary
letter rates Of postage. g cents per half
ouncc,) instead of the third-class
rate q cent per hall. .Ounce) to
which Gen. Keys order assigned it.
The statute OF March ), 1879, defining mail
matter Of the first claas. places within that
category ''all matter wholly or partially in
writing" excepting certain specified OBJ
jects The revocation by Postmaster
General Maynard Of section 232 Of tho
postal regulations will subject to first class
or letter rates al immense amount of cor
respondence forwarded by railway and in
surauce companies, partly ir writing and
partly in print, ''p-ices current" with the
quotations filled in writing. waybills, in
surance policies. vouchers, cash checks,
drafts. and the like. The following is the
tcAt vi tuc EttcTIeu 10
sit is ordered that section 232, postal
regulations, be revoked, and in lieu thereof
the following order is made:
"Mailable matter of the first class shall
embrace all matter wholly or partially in
IMtrch 3, 1879, sec. 8, 90 Stat, D. 3jS.
"The exceptions are as follows:
-. Corrected proof sheets and manu-
nto .i,.v t1,ns
sec. II, p. $50.
80. Date and name Of the addressed
and of the sender of circulars. and the cor
rection Of mere typographical errors there
in.-Ibid.. sec. 10, p. 500.
IS. Bills, receipts and orders for sub
| scription enclosed in second class publica-
tions, provided such bills, receipts and
orders shall be in such form as to convey
| no other information than the name, lOca-
tion and subscription price Of the publica-
tion or publications to which they REFER
Did. Sec. 90, p 361.
~. The Eamc and address Of the person
to whom second-class matter may be sent,
and index figure Of 4 subscription book,
and words or figures, OF both, indicating
the date on which the subscription to
such matter will and.--Nid. Sec. y. D.
800.
-. Upon matter OF the third class, or
upon the wrapper enclosing the same. the
sender may write his own name or address
with the word from above and preceding
the same, and in either case may make
simple marks, intended to disgnate word
or passage of the text to which it is desired
to call attention.-Ibid
&c. There may he placed upon the cover
or blank leaves of any books, or Of any
printed matter of the third class, 4 simply
manuscript dedication or inscription.
Such dedication or in> crip ption must be con-
fined to 4 simple address or consignment
Of such books, or other printed matter, as
{: mark Of respect, and must not contain
anything that partakes Of the nature Of =
personal corrcspondence.--Ibid
~. Upon matter of the fourth class the
sender may write his own name and adj
dress preceded by the word from and al
so the nlmher and names of the articles
inclosed. He may also write upon or at
t;ch to any such articles, by tag or label,
q mark or number, name or letter, for pur.
pose OF i.lentiiicatiOn.-IDid."