AMUSING RED TAPE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 216, 19 September 1911, Page 6

AMUSING RED TAPE.

An amusing instance of German red tape is recorded in the Frankfurter Zeitung., A few days ago a litue boy amused him&elf by tearing up four tenpfennig (penny) stamps, and the father asked at the postoffice whether he could have them exchanged.. The official there said that oinly stamps to the value of at least one mark (100 pfennig) could be exchanged, and suggested that the man should wait until more stamps were destroyed. Instead of doing this the father purchased six more stamps, and after tearing them handed the lot to the official, who gravely' exchanged them for ten new ones.