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Show POSTAGE STAMPS. Waste and Carelessness That Enrich Uncle Sam. "If we waste other things the way we do stamps," said a stamp clerk the other day, "we Americans are . just about the most wasteful people on the face of the earth. "Uncle Sam is much more than half a million dollars in pocket every year as a result of carelessness in the use of stamps. The government never loses anything by such carelessness and always al-ways gains. "How many stamps do you put loose in a drawer of your desk or in a corner of your pocketbook and never think of again until you come across them, aged and torn, while rummaging about months later? Then they are tossed , into the wastebasket. ! "Lots of people are careless about i putting stamps on envelopes and paper '. wrappers. The result is that often be- ' fore the stamp has been canceled it has 1 fallen off and the letter is held up at the other end. of the line until postage , is paid. "A great many more folks put on too ' much postage. They slap on two or three stamps to a package that requires only one. They are too busy or too Indolent In-dolent to take the trouble to have the : package weighed and find out how ; much postage the package requires. "If too little postage is put on a let- ; ter, Uncle Sam simply holds it up at j the other end until the postage due has been paid. But if too much is put on: : Uncle Sam simply pockets the excesF to which he is not entitled and says nothing." Chicago Tribune. |