Show Unfair Competition lol Io lo More than tan one billion stamped envelopes en en- 1 I elopes with printed corner cards tards are printed sold and distributed through the he Post Office Department of the United States Government constitutIng constituting Ing ng approximately five hundred car loads We contend that this is unfair I competition for the envelope manufacturers manufacturers manu manu- paper merchants printers and lithographers of the United States Our 0 government go should cease to render such service ice at vat the expense 1 of the taxpayer Under the existing laws Jaws the government go cannot receive a profit from the sale gale of stamped en- en elopes Why then does the government government govern govern- ment enter Into competition with our industries Read the following extract from the testimony supplied by Mr Charles M. M Meredith editor and publisher of The Free Press Quakertown Pa ata recent meeting of the Sp Special cial Joint Sub-Committee Sub on Postal Rates of Congress held at Philadelphia It would not be ho so n bad wl it if there them was fair competition that competition that is if the Post Office Department charged a decent decent de de- cent price for doing this work But you can buy 1000 stamped and printed print print- ed envelopes from the government for 2182 That means that 2000 of it goes for the stamps and is b left with which to reimburse the government for the stock the making of the envelopes and the printing of them hem What printer can compete with such a price T In the first place we cannot buy the plain envelopes elopes for that mon that money that I. I s an envelope to to compare th the one the government t puts pub out let alone set up a Job am and print 1000 of then thein I call caU that unfair unfair unfair un un- fair c competition mp t tio If the go government goes galS in the hole they can levy a little little I lr I tore ore tax If the printer goes in the hole tole the sheriff closes his shop At the next session of Congress undoubtedly a bill will be presented eliminating entirely or greatly modifying modi modi- the present discriminating practice practice tice of the governments government's activity in I he sale and distribution of printed stamped envelopes envelope I The government prints and delivers to points in Utah Idaho and Nevada for less than the cost of L. L C. C L. L from factories to those same points as for example Government Prices 4 03 size size alze- Stamped Envelopes government printed 2208 Stamped Envelopes not printed m L. L 2184 Charge for printing and I fl delivering A 1 w if n v 24 2 Sh Shipping weight of 1000 63 4 4 3 28 fib b. b substance e is 11 pounds which a at Waukegan Illinois oie J J. J C. C L. L of p per r owtis Is II 9 2948 Ir In I other her words the government will wil print rint and deliver one thousand 6 j 3 envelopes i for r while it ir costs is yov yo i lightly oTer over for forthe the freight ht alone |