| Show I SALT LAKE PEOPLE HAVE PRIVILEGE OF MARKING MA KING THEIR POSTAGE STAMPS If there Is anyone in Salt Lake who is missing postage stamps and know where to find them thorn it is his Imis privilege privilege lege to place his personal of identification identification on them thema a mark of tion that will not rub out Thus far there have not been reported to the postoffice any thefts of postage stamps In this city of a proportion so great as to invoke the aid ahl of the latest wrinkle in safeguarding the patrons of the postoffice department The right is theirs however whenever the purchasers of stamps desire to exercise itIn it itIn ItIn In Chicago for many years there had been complaints about thefts of stamps by b firms using thousands of dollars worth monthly weekly or daily daj The rime big mail mall order houses were sometimes at a loss to account for the figures rolled up tip and charged as postage Inspectors learned that eases s were not Infrequent where an extraordinary number of post postage postage I age stamps had been offered for sale but there was immense difficulty in the way of bringing the thieves to book The result was th postoffice de do department department has devised a system s stem whereby postage stamps may be identified with the marks of the time purchasers The trick Is done by means of perforation and is of course subject t to approval of the de do If It a firm for example were of the name of o Jones Smith upon ap application application application I for the right to employ the system system tem tern of Identification it would receive permission to perforate the s stamps tamps with the Initials J T J S The TIme letters would be punched in the center of the time stamps if it the design met with the time approval or ot the department and thereafter It would be bean bean bean an easy matter to trace to the perpetrators ors era any unusual number oC of o stamps stolen from rein Jones onea Smith We have had no n applications in Salt Lake for th use of the privilege said I Postmaster Thomas Thonmas Indicating that pur per purchasers purchasers chasers of large quantities of stamps arc not made victims of dishonest Whatever rights are extended to the peo pee people people pie of Chicago of course would also be bo extended to the citizens of Salt Lake I r Ido Ido rdo do not know that there thieve Is any an need for adopting the thc practice in Salt Lake yet but there may be some time The marks of identification of course must be ap approved approved approved proved by the department A hole punched In the stamp with a knife for instance would not be covered by the ruling So if anyone anone wants to know where his postage stamps are going aside from those he uses himself he lie is welcome to the time protecting shelter of Uncle Sams Samm wing |
