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Show UKI ARGENTINE DEPLORES AMERICANS' IGNORANCE BUENOS AIRES, Aug (Corresponded (Cor-responded , . -Vulture or the majority of North American manufacturing and exporting concerns to pine,, sufficient postage on the letters they send to Argentina is one of the details which la t ndfng to cause an unfavorable opinion here m" American Chamber of commerce In Argentina. The liulletln l.s convinced that at east 25 per cent of the letters sent, here from the i'mted States bear a; two cent stamp Inst, ad f the five cent postage cequjred This means that the recipients mt only are obliged to pay the additional three cents but! a fine Imposed by the Argentine post- office regulations equivalent to the de-; ftclency. or a total "I x cents. Man; circulars and selling letters come with two cent Stamps and it may be readily read-ily understood how annoyliiK it Is t Argentine firms to have their correspondents corre-spondents treated in such a careless manner." The bulletin also comments upon "the lack of even- rudimentary knowledge knowl-edge ..f Kograph shown b some American i oncerns in addressing letters. let-ters. It eltes the Instance ol an Important Import-ant letter addressed b the chamber of commerce of one of the largest American cities to the stock exchange In "BUeiioS Aires Brazil." The lgnor-! nnce displayed of UU location of a i lt of nearly 2.00O.U0O population is "to say ihe least not especially flattering to our Ar-i ntine friends, wno are . rv proud of BueiH Mi.-. l..i,ig the metropolis of South America." |