Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-01-25
To WRITE ON FRONT
OF THE POSTAL CARD
POstoffiCe Department Will
Permit This Custom After
the First of March,

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write on both sides of the souvenir
postal cards after the first of next
March if they have SO much to say to
their friends they cannot get it all on
one. This order does not apply to the
government postal cards, which can be
secured at any postofice for one cent.
The ruling was made as result of
the action of the universal postal
conference IN Rome last fall. A
large number OF private postal cards
have a picture on the back which
covers 1t complete. For this reason
the front of the cards are divided into
two sections and after March l,
writing on the left one-half will be
permissible The right one-half will
be still reserved for address only
ORDER OF DEPARTMENT.
The announcement is as follows:
''The universal postal convention
recently concluded IN the city
of Rome provides for the admission
to the mails exchanged between all
countries of the postal union, on and
after Oct. |, 1907, of post cards bear
ing written messages upon the left
half of the front of the cards, and as
such cards are now admitted, at the
postal rate applicable to postal clerks,
both of the domestic mails Of certain
principal countries by the United
States and to the mails exchanged
between them.
Therefore, from the date OF this
order, post cards conforming to the
provisions of the Roman convention,
when mailed in foreign countries and
fully prepaid by postage stamps,
shall be delivered to addresses In the
United States without additional
charge for POSTAGE; and on and after
March, 1907, such cards bearing
written message upon the left half of
the front, the right being reserved
for the address and postmark, when
fully prepaid by postge stamps at
the rate applicable to post cards shall
be admitted both to the domestic and
mails of this county,
and treated as post cards.
"Order No. lO47, of June %, 1906.
and provisions of regulations incun-
sistent herewith are hereby revoked. -
COUPON ORDER FORMS.
The practice has grown up of plac
ing in connection with advertisements
in periodicals and magazines a cou
pom or order form to be filled out and |
used III sending message back to the |
advertiser; or coupon wholly IN |
print not requiring to be filled out but
also for the evidence of some kind to
the advertiser.
AS general rule these coupons are
to be detached. The postoffice depart
ment at Washington has ruled that |
such blanks are not premissable parts
Of a preiodical, when designed as a |
means for future correspondence. AS
such they constitute merchandise and
are subject to that rate.
CONGRESS MAY ACT.
Congress coupons providing no
space for signature or insertion, and
intended to be detach-
ed. are third class matter and are
subject to a rate of one cent for each
two ounces or fraction thereof. The
advertiser uses the coupon as letter
to the recipient of the magazine.
However, in view of the prevalence
ana the desire &c avoid unnecessary
hardsh ips, inconvenience and loss to
the publishers, the department at
Washington has ruled such practice
will not be interfered with before
March 4, 1907. This is the day when
the esent session of congress expires
by limitation. 1t is possible that by
that time congress VIII have ST. changed
the statutes in relation to second class
or mail matter as to make express
provisions for the trea tment of detach-
able coupons and the like.