How Not to Stamp a Newspaper.
"Do you wish that sent to the dead letter office?" said a clerk at a stamp window in the post-office recently, as he noticed a gentleman affixing a stamp to a newspaper. "I can't say that I do," was the reply. "Because you are evidently unaware that a sealed package is not carried by the United States mails for one cent." "This is not a sealed package." "Excuse me, sir, but it is. The stamp is partly on the wrapper and partly on the newspaper, and the Post-office Department has very properly decided that that makes it a sealed package. Packages of that kind may get through to their destination occasionally, but it is in violation of the rule. It is very convenient to fasten a newspaper in its wrapper in that way, but it should not be done."