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Underpaid Letters

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
July
Year
1882
Copyright
Public Domain
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The new regulation concerning uuUerpaid letters; which went into opation, July 1, will materially improve the postal facilitks of the country and thereby add to the convenience of the public. Heretofore theruíe has been to send to the Dead Letter Ofnce underpaid letters bearing a one or a two cent stamp and not having the address of tho writer on the envelope, but to forward to their destination underpaid letters stamped with three cent stampa or tho3e of a higher denomination. Hereafter an underpaid letter with a one or a two jent stamp affixed, and not having the address of the writer on the envelope, will be detained in the office where it is posted and a notice sent to the person to whom it is addressed informing him of the fact and that the letter will be forwarded to him on reoeipt of the postage due. This is a marked improvemeut over the old practice of sending this sort of mail to the Dead Letter Office, but it would Boem that still greater despatch and conveuience might be se cured by maiÜDg such letters at onc to the proper person and thencollecting from hiin the postage due, as is done in the case of "short paid" letters with Btamps of a higher denomination. The new reaulation applies only to letters dep'wited at a í'ree delivery oiBce and addressed to some i place in the United States.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat