Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1898 — How to Send Mail to Soldiers. [ARTICLE]

How to Send Mail to Soldiers.

Two orders in regard to mail for and from soldiers and sailors have b?en issu. <1 by Postmaster Genen al Emory Smith. One order takes the Phillippiue Island.; out of the category of places where mail communication .with the United States is suspended and the other revives a regulation permitting soldiers, sailors and mariners to send letters postage upon which is to be collected on delivery. The second order is as follows:

“Letters writ'.en by officers, commissioned or non-commissioned, and privates in the military! naval or marine service of the United States, to be transmitted, must be plainly marked ‘Soldier’s Letter,’ .Sailor’s Letter' or ‘Marine’s Letter,’ aS the cage may be, and signed thereunder with his name . and official designation by a field or staff officer, post or detachment commander to whose command the soldier belongs,> or by a surgeon or chaplain at a hospital where he may be; and in the navy and marine service by’ the officer in command of the vessel or surgeon on board, or officer' commanding naval hospital or detachment on shore. Letters so certified will be forwarded with postage, due at single rates only, to be collected on delivery.”