Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1878 — Coin in the Mails. [ARTICLE]

Coin in the Mails.

The Secretary of the Treasury has found it very expensive to transmit coin through the mails. Upon an examination of the laws in regard to mailable matter, he has come to the conclusion that he might lawfully send it through the mails as third-class matter, and has communicated his views to the Postmaster General, who is somewhat reluctant to assume the responsibility of this character of service. He sees, however, no way to avoid it, as the law expressly provides that the officers of the Department charged with the duty are bound to receive and mail such matter. The Postoffice Department does not apprehend that this example of the transmission of coin through the mails as thirdclass matter will be followed by business men generally. The Treasury Department lias not required coin mailed from any other point than San Francisco, and the Postoffice department does not apprehend that it will be done. The express companies and the Treasury Department have made a satisfactory arrangement as to the shipment of currency to all points to which the former extend, but they do not go beyond Omaha, and will not undertake to bring from Sap, Franoißcq,- , Washington