Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1885 — POSTAL POINTS. [ARTICLE]

POSTAL POINTS.

Information Abo . t Mail Matter What Can be Pent bnd How Better Save It. ■ [United States Mail ] Books, pamphlets, and music can be sent at third-class rates. Every counting-room sho’d be supplied with scales for weighing letters. The postage on a pair of boots would be at the rate of one cent* an ounce. No valuable package should ever be mailed unless it is registered. Don’t forget this. Tea, supar, coffee, and kindred articles can be mailed at the rate of one cent an ounce. Clothing is classed as merchandise, and can be mailed only at the rate of one cent an ounce. Wedding cake can ofily be mailed when packed in a tin or wooden box. Confectioneries the same. Never write an address on a letter or any kind of a package intended for mailing in a careless manner. A book presented for mailing with a letter attached to it would subject the entire package to letter rates. Send no cash money by mail. It is much safer and cheaper in the long run to buy a money order or postal note? If you wanted to send a suit of clothes by mail which weig li e d six pounds, you would have to make two packages of it. Matter inclosed in a sealed envelope, though the corners may be cut or the ends notched, is subject to letter rates. - Liquids, poisons, explosive and inflammable articles are not received for mailing, no matter how carefully wrapped. Chromes, engravings orlith ographs belong to the third class, and can be sent at the rate of two ounces for one cent. Animals, reptiles live or dead (not stuffed) insects, except queen beCfc when safely secured, are excluded from the mails. Photograpli ic and aut ographic albums are classed as merchandise, and postage is charged at the rate of one cent an ounce An unclaimed postal card is not . returned to th[e writer, i even though his address is givi en upon it, but is sent to the ; dead l etter Letter he.' L oili-neads and i envelopes, blank or are charged as merchantdise.' and postage must be paid at tlm rate of one cent an ounce. Alpostal-card is not mailable with any writing or printing on the address side, except the address, nor with anything pasted or pinned to the other side.

When mail matter is once deposited in a post-office or in a street leffr'v.bcy if is beyond the connoi of the ptison putting it there and can not be reclaimed. Every , business man should use return request envelopes in all his correspondence. If everybody used them the dead letter office would soon wind up its business. >he dead-letter office is a monument to the carelessness and stupidity of the American I people. The average number [Continued on Eighth Page.]