The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-20
CHANGES IN POSTAL SERVICE
ARE BENEFIT TO The PUBLIC
Practice Of Sending Money Order
Advices is Eliminated by
Government.
EXPENSES BEING CUT DOWN

II is the opinion OF employees of the
United States postal department that
Postmaster General Hitchcock is max
ing a conscientious effort to do away
with some of the useless "red tape,
which is now drawn about the method
of conducting certain departments OF
the postofhce business. Two import
ant changes of this kind have already
been sanctioned by congress and 9TH
ers have been advised by the post
master general.
one of these changes does away
with the sending of money order advi-
ces from the issuing to the paying Of
fee BY a change in the form of the
postal money order and the elimina-
ton of the mail advice to postmasters
of the issuance of money orders, POST
master General Hitchcock expects TO
save to the government approximately
100000 a year The new money order
form is two and one-half inches longer
than the one now I'm use. 1t consists
of a stub, order with marginal check,
coupon To be retained by the postmas-
ter who makes the payment and re-
ceipt for the remitter. The order
and coupon both are to be mailed by
the remitter to the person in whose
favor the order Is drawn. The new
form will be put into use as soon as the
public printer can obtain the necessary
supply of safety paper.
When the section of the law was
enacted requiring money order advices
to be sent by the issuing postmaster to
the paying office. the money order was
not protected by the safeguards now
employed to prevent raising the
amount, nor did it contain the names
of the remitter and payee. These par
ticulars were stated i'm the advice,
which served to identify the person
presenting the order for payment and
to insure the correctness of the amount
| claimed.
Since the passage OF the law requir-
ing the advice il has been found pre-
ferable to insert the names of the re-
mitter and payee i'm the money order
itself, and that is now the practice. 1t
is also the practice to require personal
identification of the payee to print the
forms on water marked and tinted
safety paper i'm order to prevent eras-
ures. and to use marginal intentions
showing i'm round numbers the amount
| for which the order is drawn. Thus
the ADVICE is no longer Of any value
| for the purpose originally intended.
Registry Return Receipt
on the recommendation of the pos
tai department, congress has also pass
ed the following
whenever the sender shall so re-
quest a receipt shall be taken on the
delivery of any registered mail mat
ter, showing to whom and when the
same was delivered. which receipt shall
be returned to the sender. and be re-
ceived by the courts as prima facie
evidence Of its delivery"
The effect Of this amendment will be
to permit the department to do away
with the receipt when it is not desired
by the sender or registered man, con-
tinuing it's use however, in all cases
where the sender so requests. 1t is
estimated that the passage of this bill
will enable the department by aban-
doning the use of the receipt when it
is not desired, to save about 100000
annually i'm the cost OF conducting the
registered mail service.
The present law necessitates the re-
turn to the sender i'm every instance
whether he desires it or not. of re-
ceipt from the person receiving regis
tered mail. The practice is to obtain
such a receipt on a post card and re-
turn ii to the sender. The postmaster
at the office of delivery obtains a sep
arate receipt for it's own records, which