COMPLAIN OF STAMPS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 130, 21 April 1903, Page 2

COMPLAIN OF STAMPS.

to* Recently Sent Ouit by Post OfficeDepartment Tha* Stnolc Tioo Well. Many complaints have been made to the post office authorities that the stamps sold in books of 24 and 48 have had a way of sticking to the paraffin paper that was supposed to protect the mucilage on them. An investigation was made, with the result that a circular was issued authorizing the redemption of stamps so glued to the sheets in books. It was explained that "by mistake" the contractor who made the books had used a poor quality of paraffin paper. Postmasters were instructed to return to the department at Washington all books of stamps made with this inferior quality of paraffin fly leaves Which they had on hand. Under tiiis order about $12,000 worth of damaged books have been turned in, and it is thought that there will be little more trouble of the kind. This is not the only stamp trouble of the post office. Particularly from the south and. along the Atlantic coast there came many complaints that the ordinary one and two-cent stamps stuck to everything they touched. A sheet of 50 or more was turned in nt the New York post office this woek. They had been sent loose in a letter from the south and were hopelessly glued to the paper. Whether the trouble is due to something wrong with the mucilage or the abnormally wet season in the sonth and along- the coast has not been determined. There is no provision for the redemption by postmasters of damaged individual stamps.