Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1901 — Odd Sizes in Envelopes. [ARTICLE]

Odd Sizes in Envelopes.

German postmasters have been so annoyed by eccentricities in the shapes and sizes of the envelopes inclosing mail matter that a bill is to be introduced in the Reichstag prescribing the size and shape of envelopes. The chief annoyance is the delay in stamping the letters with postmark and canceling stamps, for these Odd-shaped and odd-sized missives will not pass through the stamping machine In such a way as to receive th% Itamp properly, and have to be gone over again by hand.