| Show HE BLAMED THE government man saw no reason tor putting himself out say remarked the post office clerk who was od duty he watched a friend affix two stamps to the corner of an why don t you put those stamps on horizontally instead of vertically dont you know you would save a lot of work for us stampers it you put you stamps beside each other instead of under each othera we always have to make two strokes when canceling vertically pasted stamps by hand and they don t work well through the stamping ma chinee either la that soa queried his friend as he took another envelope and proceeded to affix two stamps to it in a vertical position then by the great horn spoon why doean doesn t the govern ment sell its stamps in horizontal lines look at these here I 1 bought 20 cents worth of two cent stamps and they come to me in vertical lines it I 1 buy five twos I 1 get them attached one to the bottom of the other do you think I 1 m going to the trouble of tearing each stamp off just to please a government clerk by pasting them side by side guess again |
