Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-23
THE POSTAL NOTE.
UnpopuIarity Of the New Circulating Nc
diun Great Deal Of work
Al.


Required.
The new postal notes do not appear
to quite fulfill the expectations oi
their most sanguine advocates, and II
Is still considered an open question nv
the post-oflice In this city wh'lhef
they will demon trate their Illness TO
retention Ds a regular feature OF TIE
uostal service, or soon be Withdrawn
IN favor of something else The post
masters Of country Offices iaii 10
S'punch with cIrep and rs conse-
ulIence many OF the notes aic written
Tor one amount while the punch
marks indicate an entirely different
sum. This, e course, causes coufu'
sion, annoyance and profanity, with
other incidental evils. II X probable,
however, that with greater familiarity
I'm The making out Of the notes
mistakes will become fewer.
although there viii always be
cnouph of them to greatly
DISTURB the smooth working of The
system The idea Of printing the
amounts for which the notes are drawn
IL snid 20 tie taken from the English,
bat English postnlasters are, as class,
more intelligent and accurate ia their
work. Another objection to the notes
is found IN the fact that they have e
lie signed, although made payable &c
bearer. The object OF doing this IS to
show tina, The ii0tes lIsyc been paid
aud cannot DC realized on q second
time or more. The banks OF tie city
IRE divided in theL' treatment Of tie
notes, some Of them taking them
while Others refuse 10 have anything
10 do with them. The payment Of
money orders IL greatly facilitated by
The fact tia! tlie banks take them
from their customers ana then turn
them over 10 the post-oiliee in large
lots, taking checks for the ag-
gteaate sums for which they are
drawn. When mistakes are found In
these orders the work Of rectiiying
them Is largely done by the postoilice,
while the postal note, being payable 60
tearer, makes the correction II ore diff
ficult. II is not necessary that the
banks take the notes Mt all, but as q
nntter Of convenience TO their patrons
they can hardly keep from so doing
I'm spite of all the faults found with the
new notca, there Is no doubt but they
have some clements of popularity, and
in time the system may, after having
been modified IN some particulars, he.
come popular. The Zeal postofiice
authorities are inclined To favor
II cheap money ord for small
amomts--say live cents for all sums
less than t5-in preference to the
postal notes. This it is thought would
be simpler, safer and more popular. Tie
,pnyl- g,f iaGttin,r "a, / Il
its accompanying letter Of advice
would 1t is thought require ue-nore
work than the making out and punch
ing Of the postal notes. An obstacle'is
found however in the fact that only
about one-tentl Of the postoiiices in
the country are money order Offices.
Some plan in connection with the
registered letter system which extends
to all offices he's been sugges ed. An
other way in which the present diff.
Guilty in sending small sums OF money
through the mills might have been
to have kept ia circulation ~ few mil.
lion dollars Of the old fractional cur.
rcncy which has now been entirely
replaced by silver.
A mail superintendent tclls Il good
story Illustrating the intelligence OF
some Of tle country postInaaicrs, and
the easy way IN which he sought 10
resign his commission. He was ut the
time acting as clerk in the railway
mail service, ana one day the post
question came 10 The postal
ear when 1t stopped at the station
from which the mail for Ais office was
taken, and chuclling p#cignr box iul
Of letters into the car, shouted: "lm
may take your ID Oh post.oilice,
have rot through with itn postmas.
tere Of that sort may he counted upon
10 wake mistakes IN plnchiug postal
notes