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Show i Post Office Officials Decry Loose Coin Use j If you have coins which you. don't care about, deposit them loose in the mails, Yu can demonstrate dem-onstrate your Indifference by aking some odd pieces of silver and a cereal box top or soap coupon and s'arting them off to New York or Chicago in an ordinary or-dinary envelope. In most In-stances In-stances your gamble will pay off, but occasionally you will lose. Fostmaster Rulon Wood, and his postmas'er associates all over the country take little notice no-tice of the wins. But postmasters everywhere become mighty concerned con-cerned abou't the losses, for their Implications are far beyond the value of the money itself. There are rare occasions when most everybody finds the necd for BnnHinrr pnin Kr friil. When this is so, a coin card should be used, or the coins should be fastened fas-tened by tape to a piece of ordinary or-dinary cardboard about the size of the envelope. When a choice can be made, however, a check or a money order should be used. These are the proper methods of mailing money under all circumstances. cir-cumstances. The important reasons ttf keeping loose coins out of envelopes envel-opes are obvious. Envelope paper Is good for the purpose It is intended in-tended to serve, but It sometimes some-times gives way to the weight or the wearing action of bis of metal. This is particularly so if the envelope Is run through a stamp cancelling machine. When the machine tears the envelope and the coins fall out, the post office which recovers them can neither send them back to their owners, nor on to their destination, destina-tion, for there Is no way or there are no methods of identification. Besides the loss of money by the sender, the postal service loses too. Coins are hard on cancelling can-celling machines and sometimes cause expensive repairs. If the evelope Is handstamped which it should be and usually is the cost of processing is greater than that of processing the conventional conven-tional without as bulky enclosure enclos-ure letter. Sometimes much more Important than either of these items is the temptation to trifle which easily detectable money presents to all those through whose hands the envelope passes. So the point is this: If you're determined to gamUe. do fo. But don't do it through the mails. |