Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-04-08
WASHINGTON NOTES
Use Stamped Envelopes.

Use Stamped Envelopes.
A special effort is being made by
the P~ostof6ce Department to increase
the use Of stamped envelopes instead
Of those which have to have a stamp
affixed.
In furtherance Of this endeavor A.
IL. Lawshe, Third Assistant Postmas-
ter General, has issued a highly or
nate circular describing and illustrat-
ing the different sizes and colors of
the envelopes the government has
on sale. This has been distributed
| by the letter carriers who, forgetting
for the moment the length Of their
routes and the weight Of their sacks
| of mail, have for the most part. en-
tered into enthusiastic details as to
| the cheapness and convenience and
altogether desirableness Of this class
Of p~ostofice wares.
Everyone who uses government
stamped envelopes is aiding the Post
office Department in improving the
service,' is what Lawshe's circular
says, and, in addition. it enumerates
several advantages which are to be
| obtained from their use.
For instance, it points out that
| stamps may be easily lost, %misappro-
priated, or may become useless by
sticking together. Also a stamp may
drop off in the mail, and then there
is the time consumed in afixing the
stamp as an item of consideration.
All Of these difficulties, the circular
says, are overcome by using the
stamped envelopes.
Then when a purchaser is willing
to buy as many as 500 stamped en-
velopes at a time, the government
will print his name and address in
the upper left hand corner without
any, extra charge. The advantage Of
this is that such envelopes do not
find their way to the dead letter Of
flee. If the address cannot be found
the letter is returned without extra
postage to the sender. Such enve-
lopes, if misdirected, are redeemable
at the P~ostofice from original pur-
chasers only at full stamp value.
This is not true Of adhesive stamps.
The Postofice Department sells
the envelopes in various sizes, colors,
and qualities; but the most usual size
can be obtained for about eight for a
cent, stamp value extra. Thus eight
two-cent envelopes would cost about
seventeen cents. One can get them
in white, amber, blue, buff or ma
Mia.
Officials of the internal revenue
bureau of the Treasury Department
are of the opinion that the temper
ance movement, which has taken
such a strong hold Of certain sections
;i-of the country, particularly in the
South, has resulted in increasing the
number of violations of the internal
revenue laws IN the sdistiHation Of il
icit whiskey.
Recent reports indicate that in
many Southern States, especially in
Alabama, Georgia and North Caro-
lima there has been greater activity
on the part Of the lawless mountain
element, who always have been
troublesome to the revenue agents,
than in many years. These three
States now have laws prohibiting
distillerles from operating within
their borders. In Alabama the law
went into effect Oh July 1, 1908; in
Georgia on January l, 1908; and II
North Carolina January 1, 1909.
Many legitimate distilleries have
, moved to Florida and other States
; where the inhibition does not exist
Whiskey being more difficult to OBJ
tain in a legitimate way has greatly
increased the profits Of illicit distill
ing, with the result that the .activi
ties of the internal revenue bureau
at this time is largely directed to
wards the mountain sections of these
three States.