A POSTAL PROBLEM.
Everyone gets caught aow arid then without a stamp in the house when it is too late to worry a neighbour for one, and yet there is a letter which simply must be posted. "We wore in that position the other night' (writes a correspondent to a London newspaper). Our assets were one halfpenny stamp minus gum and a postcard written to someone els© who did not matter for the moment. On that postcard was the printed Government stamp, which we could cut out if we could find a way to stick it on. "Throwing three halfpence down the letter-box, with a 'leave it to the postman,' seemed insecure, because the letter might be delayed. There was no gum in. the. house, and paste made from domestic flour it notoriously an unsafe adhesive. "Juat wlwn I was working on a desperate scheme for steaming the glue out of a kitchen cbisir, and using that, my wife called out that I need not bother. She had stitched the stamps on with a .needle and cotton. I hear the letter arrivedisafelj"." , .. . , What, it may be asked, is the best thing to. do if one is quite etamplees? According to the British post officials, it is quit© legal to stitch a stamjp on, proVided the stamp is perfect and has not been used before. "The easiest way out of the difficulty when one find? oneself without a stamp is to put the addressed letter in another envelope addressed to the Post-master-General with the amount of the postage enclosed in coin. The Post Office people then will stick the stainp on* and deliver the, letter," saidv an official. 'Stamps taken from a cheque cannot be affixed to letters as they are only recognised for Inland Revenue purooaef. , :-t ■"■ ■' • * :
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17612, 15 November 1922, Page 13
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297A POSTAL PROBLEM. Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17612, 15 November 1922, Page 13
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