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Show No Postage, No Delivery Of Mail Under New System Postmaster Ingra Richards today reminded customers that effective Sunday, Nov. 17, the U.S. Postal Service Intends to discontinue delivering mail on which there Is no postage. Mrs. Richards said the new policy was insUtuted because of the high costs being incurred by the Postal Service in Its attempt to deliver such mail. Officials estimate that such costs total approximately $18 million annually. In announcing the new policy last month, Postmaster General E. T. Klassen said, "It Is unfair to burden the vast majority of mailers with costs created by the few who mail without prepayment of postage." After Nov. 17, letters mailed without postage will be returned to sender if there Is a return address, or to the dead letter office, Instead of being delivered to the address as postage due mall as has been the custom. Postal officials will attempt to find the sender of unpaid mail and return It for a slight fee, if there Is no return address. "Naturally we realize that someone could Inadvertently forget to put a stamp on a letter or that a stamp could come off prior to cancellation, so we urge mailers to be sure in include a correct return address on their mall," Mrs. Richards said. |