Postal Card Rates and the Printed Slip Anomaly
POSTAL CARDS.—The Paterson (N. J.) Press furnishes the following synopsis of the law of postal cards: “There is one rather absurd thing about postal cards that seems not to be generally known. A good writer, who gets things down fine, can put several thousand words on a card, and the cost is a cent, but if he puts a printed slip containing a single word on the card, the expense is six cents; one paid for the card and the other collected from the card receiver; yet if words are printed on the card itself it is all right. If a person pastes a printed slip on a card, the size of a postal card, and puts the card and slip in an envelope, the government will carry card, slip, and envelope for a cent, yet it charges six cents for carrying a postal card and slip without the envelope. Then if you have occasion to paste a printed paragraph on a postal card, put it in an envelope, and the additional weight will be carried four cents cheaper than the card alone goes.”