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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
324
4th.
No
folded
paper
can
be
stamped;
and
therefore
paper,
whether
intended
for
envelopes
or
letters,
must
be
sent
unfolded
and
without
being
creased.
5th.
Every
distinct
size
and
form
of
envelope
or
paper
must
be
marked
so
as
to
indicate
the
plan
on
which
the
stamp
is
to
be
impressed,
in
order
that,
when
the
envelope
or
letter
is
folded
and
made
up,
the
stamp
may
appear
in
the
proper
position
according
to
the
rules
of
the
Post-Office.
6th.
No
coloured
paper
can
be
received
for
stamping,
nor
any
paper
which
is
too
thin
to
bear
the
impression
of
the
dies.
7th.
Envelopes
provided
by
the
office,
with
the
proper
stamps
thereon,
will
be
substituted
for
any
which
may
be
spoiled
in
the
operation
of
stamping.
A
recent
concession
made
by
the
Board
of
Inland
Revenue
may
be
regarded
as
one
of
the
latest
novelties
in
the
advertising
world.
Under
the
arrangement
in
question,
the
Stamp-Office
permits
embossed
rings
with
the
name
of
a
particular
firm,
e.
g.
"Allsop
&
Co.,
Burton-on-Trent,"
"De
la
Rue
&
Co.,"
to
be
placed
round
the
stamp
as
a
border
to
it.
In
1844,
after
the
exposé
of
the
letter-opening
practices
at
the
General
Post-Office,
Mr.
Leech
gave
in
Punch
his
"Anti-Graham
Envelopes,"
and
his
satirical
postage
envelope,
afterwards
engraved
by
Mr.
W.
J.
Linton,
and
widely
circulated,
represents
Sir
James
Graham
sitting
as
"Britannia."
About
the
same
time
there
might
have
been
seen
in
the
windows
of
booksellers
of
the
less
respectable
class,
a
kind
of
padlock
envelope,
exhibiting
the
motto,
"Not
to
be
Grahamed."
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