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Show oo BRITISH POSTAL CONVENIENCES. At an early date the new halfpenny halfpen-ny and penny stamps will be issued In long rolls of 1000 for use In io sdms osoqj, soniqoBUZ Sujdtnujs stamps will be nearly 2S yards long. For some time past commercial firms havo been pressing lor this concession. conces-sion. Automatic stamping machines are now very commonly used in America, whore they have proved most successful as a labor saving device de-vice At present it has been decided to issue rolls containing 1000 stamps, but it is understood that, should thore bo any demand from business firms for smaller supplies of stamps In this form, strips of 500 will bo printed. print-ed. There is no intention of selling stamps prepared In this way in quantities quan-tities of less than 500 or more than 1000. One other concession has been made in regard to stamps, aud that is the price of the books which have hitherto contained IS penny and 11 halfpenny stamps, and sold at 2s. From June 1 no charge is to be made for preparing the very handy booklets. book-lets. It may be recalled that originally origi-nally the stamps were placed between specially prepared paper, to which, they got damp. An official of the postofflce informed our representative that it was found Impossible to print advertisements upon these prepared leaves between" the stamps. Hence tho change to ordinary paper A few complaints, said this official, had .been made at tho postofflces upon this point, but, considering tnc many thousands of these booklets which had beon sold, the risk of the stamps sticking to the paper was too trifling to be noticed. He had no doubt that, now tho books wero to contain 2s worth of stamps, thero would be a greater demand than ever for them. London Telegraph. |