South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-09-14
POSTAL roTEs.

ing the method ofthe new postal note
System:
Nov, said the Doctor, l will tell
you all about the postal note in a We
ry few words. The postal note is
SIMPLY form OF money o.ders-of
cheap money orders Tor sums less than
30, payable 10 bearer. Ii is not issued
In lieu OF the ordinary money or
der, but concurrently with money or
ders for sums less than 81. That is
to say, the public have the option of
purchasing from the postmaster at the
Office OF issue, money order or a
postal note for sums under 50, Just az
they prefer. If man purchases a
money order he pays q lee of eight
cents, and the Postotiice Department
assumes the responsibility OF seeing
that 1t paid to the proper person. If
he buys postal note he pays fec OF
three cents, and then transmits il
through the mail al his own risk. The
chief difference between money or
der and a postal note is that while
one Is made payable to u designated
person, the other is made payable TO
bearer
Then, if a letter containing a pos.
tai note Is rihed, the thief can readily
get it cashed?'
Y cs,' said the Doctor, 'the bearer
OF postal note ID paid the money.
out The wrong person, especially il he
had robbed the mails, would find
some difficulty about cashing the note,
perhaps more than they would be rea-
dy 10 meet. For instance, whoever
sends the note can take description of
1t; that Is, the name OF the office from
which 1t WAS Issued, and the one
where 1t ia sept and the amount
Then the one who uses it has to sign
his nar1e at the bottom, and i: the
| postmaster does not know him, he
can also be required 10 sign the note
ON the back in addition. It will not
be SD easy Il matter ia you suppose.
besides. n rule, the amounts Will be
so small ~ to discourage the running
OF any such risk
The primary dc4isn OF the postal
note, resumed the Doctor, after this
! digress!cn. 'is 10 take the place Of
fractional currency, which wu5 Il great
public convenience. There has been
very general demand from news
paper publishers, dealers in articles of
merchandise ofsmall vaiue and Others
tor something that could be used in
making small remi;tances by maj!
Ordinary postage staaps could not lie
redeemed and coin was not available
because 1t was neither safe nor con-
venient. The postal note meets this
| demand
suppose merchant receives
large quantity OF these notes must he
take them to the postolii.c himseli?'
asked the reporter.
'Cer!ainIy not WAS the reply.-
These notes are payable to bearer.
Jast as IL bank check is. The mer-
chant gives them to his messenger or
! clerk, and he can get them casheI AZ
the postofiice. lie docs uot lave tic
trouble OF assigning, as in tho caeo of
ii money order
Can't lie pay them out again in
traie?'
III the customer will receive them
he can said the Doctor. with smile
these notes arc not legal tender. and
there l. no objection on the part Of
any one to take them | see that
they have been refused at the L. S.
Treasury, because they had no facill,
ties for casting them. There must
be some one to take the postal notes
to the postoilice, either at the Office
drawn upon or at the Office OF issue
| 10 doubt they will be offered at the
banks ana it will simply be a question
OF convenience whether they arc ia
/ ken or not.
Wei, Doctor, Why did You lave
such an ugly color!'
The Object Of that color is to MAKE
the note anti Photographic Brown
and canary color, with green Oh the
back, forms a combination of colors
that doIies the camera. They vii!
look better, however, after awhile
when the first rush is over, aud the
printers have a chance to improve the
press work
But the color does not guard q.
! galn5. tie skill OF tic countcgiciterY
asked the listener.
40, it does not, replied the doctor.
bat every prccaution ho5 been adop.
ted to prevent coul.erfoitiag. The
note - printed on thjn bank note pa.
| per aud has very intricate designs of
! geometFiCal lathe work. + IS posi-.
bic, OF course. for human ingenuity
To counterfeit it 80 it has counterfeit.
ed everything clso, but tho chances
are Sd greatly against il that they
may be safely left ont OF the calcutta
/ ton. a counterfeit would besides be
/ very soon discovered, as the notes
ana tie stubs are kept and compared
when the accounts OF the postmastes
arc made out The notes after they
have been paid, are kept in the Au,
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