Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1900 — A Tip About Using Stamps. [ARTICLE]

A Tip About Using Stamps.

‘‘Wait until I have washed off the postage stamp on this envelope, spoil ed in the addressing,” said a man, according to the Washington Star. “It is not necessary to do that,” said a lawyer. “You may take your scissors and cut out the adhesive stamp and stick it fast to your new envelope witli mucilage, notwithstanding the adhering piece of the old envelope. “It does not look nice and may become detached - in the mail, but if the stamp is a genuine, unused adhesive stamp it is not questioned. The government, when it sells an gdhesive 2cent stamp, undertakes for such consideration to transport and deliver to destination the letter to which it is affixed. The fact that it has with it a piece of envelope to which it was formerly attached but which was not used or deposited for mailing, does not relieve the government from executing its part of the contract when the letter is deposited for mailing, the stamp being otherwise perfbet.”