TRANSPARENT ENVELOPES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1196, 3 August 1911, Page 4

TRANSPARENT ENVELOPES.

NEW P.O. REGULATIONS. The Post Office has considerable difficulty in dealing with correspondence enclosed iu "transparent" envelopes, i.e., onvelopcs having in front a panel of Iran*, parent' paper through which the address on the enclosure is read. In* many instance?, through the insufficient transparency of the material forming the panel,'the indistinct writing of the ad-, drew, or the careless folding of the mi- • closure, officers aro hindered in reading tho addresses. In order to avoid the, delay thus caused, which may have serious effects in'respect of tho wlible body of mail matter in hand at a given lime, a regulation has been framed providing that letters or other articles contained in "transparent" envelopes, the addresses of which cannot he easily read, shall be put aside (o be dealt, with when work is less pressing, even if they should thereby be delaved iu dispatch or delivery. Articles with enclosures folded in such a manner that the addresses cannot bo read will 1m treated as undoliverahle, and articles enclosed in envelopes with the transparency placed crosswise instead of lengthwise "in. the envelope aro prohibited, and will bo dealt', with accordingly.