The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-01-15

pouch, draw out the WaSnaple OrueF
slip and wipe off the old order for yes
terdays supply of stamps. You observe
that at the top is printed: Enclosed
find $ cents postage on - unstamped
letters" You mark in the appropriate
spaces the number of stamps desired
and the number of letters to be mailed.
You next glance down the list of pur-
chaseable stamps described above and
make your cross in the little square
block opposite the proper line. Let us
say that you order five tWos. You in
close II cents and write your name and
address upon the appropriate space at
the bottom. Thus you have paid cents
for a stamp to be placed on your letter
at the post-office and have inclosed
10 cents more for the postman to bring
you five twos. You insert the pouch,
with slip and money inclosed, into the
after raising the carriers signal as de-
scribed. The carrier notices this on his
next trip, and after delivering your
mail, If he has any for you, into the de-
livery compartment, unlocks the box,
examines the order and money
through the transparent face of the
pouch, and, If the proper change be in
closed. straightway takes your I'M
pouch with him, depositing both with
the proper official in the post-offfce
later. The official takes out the money,
inserts the proper number of stamps,
aftiNes the extra stamp to your letter
and has it Immediately sent in the next
mail. He then hands your celluloid
pouch to the carrier for your district,
who returns 1t to the delivery COM
partment of your box. You take out the
stamps and keep the pouch until you
care to use 1T again.
Now, suppose you wish to dispatch a
special delivery letter to a friend whom
you wish to invite to dinner. You have
neither an ordinary stamp nor a special
delivery stamp. You go through the
same process as before as regards the
two-cent stamps, or whichever denomi-
nations you purchase in addition to
those which are to be put on your let
ter. AT the bottom of the order slip, be-
low the list of stamps, you will observe
after the general heading, Enclosed
find" these additional spaces to be fill
ed: = cents to pay for - special de-
livery stamps, to be affixed at post
office" The directions further state
that you must write the word special
on the upper right hand corner of the
envelope upon which you wish the
special delivery stamp to be affixed.
from ordinary unstamped letters in the
post-oftice. You will ,inclose ten cents In
addition to the price of the two-cent
stamp for your letter and the other
stamps to be returned to you. Your let
ter will be dispatched by messenger i'm
medately from the post-offlce.
| The only step in all of these processes
of transacting business through the
new pouches which is liable to be mis-
| the necessity of ordering additional
stamps to be returned to you after your
unstamped letters have been mailed
Unless you send an order for stamps tc
| be brought back you will fail to have
| your pouch returned. But, after all
| this will not seriously inconvenience
you, although it will cost you at Least
/ seven cents every time you mail ar
ordinary letter. The smallest sum which
stamps will be five cents for five ones
| But you would not have your stamps
affixed at the post office if you did not
need more And, besides this, Uncle
| Sam would almost always be faced
with the necessity of having to lick the
public's stamps if he did not make il
necessary for your supply of unattached
stamps to be constantly reinforced.
/ The new private branch post-offices
which will be officially known as hous'
/ collection and delivery boxes, in con
nection with stamp-selling envelopes
are to be improvements on the boxes
authorized for use in the house t
house collection and delivery system
adopted for several cities by the las
administration. They are of many de
signs and grades, from which the pur
chaser is at liberty to select. Some ma,
be screwed to the front door, the open
ings to the compartments extendin.
through, and the compartments them
selves being on the inside; others ma.
be fastened to the outside of the house
The arrangement of some into com
partments-the collection compartment
and the delivery compartment-enab
the carrier to hold the regulation Ike.
to one and the owner a. different key t
the other, thereby preventing one own
er from holding key which will UNI
lock his neighbours boxes, as would b
the case if the uniform carriers Ike
opened both of the compartment door:
The owner may learn whether mail ha
been deposited by moving a lever eX
| tending into his home. OF course n
boxes except those tested and sold b
the post office will be allowed in tn
service. They are being made by tn
Postal Improvement Company of MOI
ristown, Penn A. Darling Cushing, sec
rotary of the company, is the invento
of the celluloid pouches and many c
the other improvements necessitated b
: the new system The stamp-sellin
pouches will not be used except in cor
nection with the regulation boxes. Tn
purchaser of each box receives with
one of the regulation pouches free c
cost.
} Uncle Sam excerpts not only to benef
his citizens but himself also by adopt
ing this interesting course. By the in
PRODUCTION of the stamp selling pouc
he expects to increase his sale
stamps. There is sound commerce;