Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — No Postage Stamp Sold. [ARTICLE]

No Postage Stamp Sold.

In Mexico when the mail arrives at the postoffice the names of people to whom letters are addressed are written on a slip of paper and posted on a bulletin board. Merchants go every morning to examine this announcement, and if they find their names on the list hand their cards to the delivery clerk, who hands them their mail. No postage stamps are sold, but those having letters to mail take them to the postmaster, who sticks t|he stamps on. In all public places men are found sitting around provided with pen, ink and paper, ready to conduct the correspondence of any one who has not the ability to do str. The number of these scribes proves that their business is 1 a paying one.