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Show Post Office Says it Was All a Mistake The Post-Office department takes back the claim made in its letter last month that it is within the rights of postmasters to solicit printing print-ing orders. In an earlier letter to Edwin H. Wilder, manager of the San Francisco office of the California Cali-fornia Newspaper Publishers Association, Asso-ciation, the first assistant postmaster post-master general stated that the fact that the postmaster at Rio Vista, Calif., was making a personal solicitation so-licitation for the sale of envelopes did not concern the post-office department de-partment and stated that "there is no desire on the part of the department depart-ment to curtail such acivities." A more recent letter to Mr. Wilder, dated March 16, admits a misunderstanding misunder-standing and reverses the position defined in the first letter. The second sec-ond letter reads as follows: Mr. Edwin H. Wilder, Manager, S'an Francisco Office California Newspaper Publishers Ass'n., Inc. My Dear Mr. Wilder: I have your letter of March 9 and accompanying correspondence concerning con-cerning the alleged solicitation of the sale of special request envelopes by the postmaster at Rio Vista, Cal. Upon looking into the matter I find that through a misunderstanding misunderstand-ing the department's letter of February Feb-ruary 16, 1937, was prepared from an accounting standpoint, without consideration of the long established policy with respect to printed stamped envelopes. The matter has been taken up with the postmaster at Rio Vista who has disclaimed any intention of disregarding the instructions of the department in the matter of soliciting so-liciting the sale of printed stamped envelopes. (Signed) R. M. NORTH, Acting Third Assistant Postmaster Post-master General. |