The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-06-11
BY MAIL
IS FORBIDDEN
No Deliveries Made With FiC-
ticiOuS Names
Merchants Place Ban OH Love Mes
-aec Being Delivered in Packages
This Method Is Often EN-
plOyed.

may firt verbally and ViSibly at near
distances without serious hindrances
Int YOU are taking long chances when
you flirt by mail. Postal inspectors
are quite energetic in suppressing the
fartdtions.
business houses refuse to be the
media for Cupid. Large concerns
do not permit their parcels of MGR
~ahandise to be turned into travelling
mail boxes for carrying the letters
If the lovelorn in their employ. Be
tween the two opposing forces woOerS
at long distances are having a hard
time of it. In a few more years they
may be entirely Squelched, says the
chicago Tribune.
In factories and mail order houses
used to be that the loveSick swain
8ud maiden could drOp their ad-
dresses and sweet nothings' into an
outgoing package with a reasonable
&aSurance that a correspondence at
least would follow.
The package of merchandise was an
accommodating mail box tWith no
postage to Uncle Sam and a great
~"iutroducer" for romantic young per.
sons. If SuSie's amorOuS telegram
pinned inside a hat band or slipped
under the first row of chocolates in
the bottom of the box fell into the
k4illlN ciulcIltS VI ii lonely & IllCI Tie
chances were that wedding bells
would ring for Susie.
But postal authorities and business
firms have own upon this method
off communication
Put nothing but what belongs to
Ekynk & Co. into outgoing PACKAGES
r the order issued to the packers and
inspectors by every large firm. To
see that the order is obeyed each
packer is given a unbe and re-
CURED to put this number inside each
box he packs. The numbers trace
The guilty ones when complaints pour
All parcels and boxes pass through
The hands of an inspector who is re-
SpunSible for merchandise which
leaves the warerooms. Then there
arg other inspectors who are also held
responsible. BY the system Of in
Spection it is difficult for a love let
ter to go through. After it caves
the firm there are the postal inspec-
tors 10 account with-if the package
Us sent by mail.
\ firm will permit employees to
send messages in it's merchandise
said a manager of an advertising
speciality house, which sends out over
$1,000 packages q month. The prac-
ice is against good form. 1t cheap
ems the house, shows lack of discip-
line among the employees, smacks OF
y ~ t1u q w ootO III ll1S IL IL
A~hdlgnified, childish, a breach OF
good business. 1t is against all tradi.
uohs OF honest dealing and not to bt
Tolerated for q moment"
Strict Orders Against Letters.
our orders are SO strict againS
putting anything personal into pack
ages OF the firm that we have NJ
ulfflcuities along that line said tn
employment manager Of Sears, Roe
Ma & ~ 1900
average 10, 900, 900 parcels and boxe
IA a year. OF this number there wer
only two Offenses last year. Dur EN-
pioyes understand that no writin,
must go into the firms boxes and de
lay their delivery. No rules are post
tu. The packers simply explain to
new hand that a box packed properl
contains nothing but the firm
goods
Correspondence of any kind an
ne sending of addresses in our boxe
OF candy are prohibited" said tn
manager of the National Candy Com
pany.
There is no opportunity for writ
hs IN our workrooms. as packing
uone by machinery" said the fore
man or the National Biscuit COmpan!
YET love laughs at ~locksmiths.
Enough there are rules and watch
aul inspectors, tiirts are taking tn
long chance" Of losing their pos
N'ilS ana beng detected by postal II
SpeCtors. Hundreds of letters 1
SILKS, the laces, the chocolates, an
ne rlbbon in the factories every da.
r"reinen and forewomen are COZ
Stantly discovering "amorous lines i
packages before they are turned owe
- the inspectors. In factories wheI
Inspection is not so rigidly enforce
",d where the manufacturer sell
.oopers and packages cannot I
raced easily the custom of flirting I
ihalI Still f1ourishes.
hahhie Wants Gentlemen Friends.
intked IN the top Of a trick
3al'h box a lynx eyed inspectt
'and mis- after the package had II
= OF the head manager:
am a dark eyed bohemian girl
"inl pretty, with long. black hai
Ma don't allow me 10 have I