Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-22
PRIVATE MAILING CARDS
New Order in Regard to Them by the Post
master General.
circumstances That Have Brought
About the Change in
Conditions.

| When the Postmaster General first pro-
| mulgated the law allowing private mailing
/ cards bearing written messages TO go
through the mails at the one-cent rate of
postage the same the rate on the reg
| uiar government postal card he limited
| their use to the domestic mails and pre-
scribed certain conditions as to size. color
| etc, one of these conditions being that
| each card, TO be mailable, should bear rpon
| It's face the words private mailing card
| Under these regulations thousands of pri-
| Nate mailing cards were prepared and Were
admitted to the mails all over the country
Later on the Postmaster General in order
| 70 render the cards transmissible in The in
ternational mails, prescribed as a new con-
| ultioh' under the terms of the postal union
convention, that they should bear tba
words Postal Card-Carte Postal In al
usuon TO the printing required by the
original regulations The effect of this Wa
I" render unavailable all the cards that had
bGen prepared, which caused very consid.r-
able inconvenience to those who were IIsIne,
the cards. 1919
To remedy this trouble the Postmaster
GG i,H mas now adopted new regulations.
NlCh' Whle requiring the words Postal
Nard-Carte PostaIe' to be placed en- pr
Hdte Haihhg cards 10 be sent abroad do
ny Iequire them on those that are used in
me domestic mails.
Following is a draft of the new reg,1I,
tons: e -'S" 'eSul
Order No. I'D
The attention of postmasters and the mn
iIC - called to the following act of Com
SIesS, approved May -, lH1S and To de-
paFtmehtai regulations established there
u4Ge[ prescribing the conditions under
winch private mailing cards bnarir.,
written messages may be transmitted in
the mails, domestic and foreign:
IhaL from and after the LIST day of July
do"o; II shall be lawful to transmit by mail,
az the postage rate of a cent apiece pay
abIe by stamps to he affixed by the Sender,
ana under such regulations as the POST
master General may prescribe written
"'eSSdSeS on private mailing cards such
cdfuS TO be sent openly in the mails To he
no larger than the size fixed by the conven-
Lloh OF the universal postal union. and to
De approximately of the same form olla'fty-
anu weight as the stamped postal card now
| IN general use in the United States''
10 ne entitled TO the privfle ges given by
ms ti; act mailing cards must conform to the
following conditions:
l. Each card must be an unfolded piece of
cardboard, not exceeding ~. by 5ia inches
ana not less than 15-1G by 15-16 inches
in size.
2 The quality and weight must be sub
stantally that Of the government postal
card OF ike size.
,. They may be of any color which does
dress.
4. Each card must bear these words at
the top OF the address side: Private
mailing card authorized bv act of CON
gress, May 10. 1895 paced thereon by
means of printing or hand stamp
.. cards conforming to the conditions of
paragraphs l to 4, inclusive, admis-
sible for transmission in the domestic
mails, including Porto Rico Guam and the
Philippine Islands, and 10 places in Canada
and Mexico, at the postage rate of / cent
each, prepaid by stamps affixed.
6. Cards conforming TO the conditions of
paragraphs l to 4. inclusive, will be rem
dered admissible to the postal union mails
by the addition of the words Postal Card
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