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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
329
Of
course
all
this
is
quackery,
or
worse;
still
the
reader
need
not
be
told
how
in
innumerable
bonâ
fide
cases
the
system
of
postage-stamp
remittances
is
exceedingly
handy
for
both
buyer
and
vendor,
and
how
trade--retail
at
any
rate--is
fostered
by
it.
As
a
social
arrangement,
for
the
poorer
classes
especially,
we
could
not
well
over-estimate
its
usefulness.
Again
we
see
a
good
result
of
the
penny-post
scheme.
Since
1840,
not
only
has
the
use
of
postage-stamps
in
this
way
never
been
discouraged
(as
it
was
always
thought
that
fewer
coin
letters
would
be
sent
in
consequence),
but
the
Post-Office
authorities
have
recently
made
provision
for
taking
them
from
the
public,
when
not
soiled
or
not
presented
in
single
stamps.
This
arrangement
is
already
in
force
at
the
principal
post-offices,
and
will
ultimately
extend
to
all.
In
America,
as
will
be
familiar
to
most
readers,
postage-stamps
have
formed
the
principal
currency
of
small
value
almost
since
the
breaking
out
of
the
present
fratricidal
war.
More
recently,
the
United
States
Government
has
issued
the
stamps
without
gum,
as
it
was
found
inconvenient
to
pass
them
frequently
from
hand
to
hand,
after
they
had
undergone
the
gelatinizing
process.
Under
an
Act,
"Postage
Currency,
July
17th,
1862,"
the
Federal
authorities
have
issued
stamps
printed
on
larger
sized
paper,
with
directions
for
their
use
under
the
peculiar
circumstances.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
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