Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1889 — The New Postal Cards. [ARTICLE]

The New Postal Cards.

Very soon, it is said, new postal cards will be issued to all postoffices and put in general use. The card has the advantage of privacy to the correspondence placed upon it It is much lik® a double card of the old pattern, and the back fold being split diagonally from all four corners and opens square out. The four corners are joined together in the center with a piece of gummed paper when the card has been written. The card weighs less thaii half an ounce and will contain no more writing than those now in use.