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ON POST OFPICE BUSIN£SS .

Prior to the more general in-troduction of "FREE" O!a:tl<e
i'or eer\.ain t.ype~ o.f t11a1l ih. 1899 only -l:he Po&t. O£f'1ce

itself had -l:his pri~ile~, ihe firet of such nandsta~p~
being seni to ~a~a1ca from ~lahd on the 9th No~e~ber,

18'\3. The second nandstlli'lp - "ON POST orriCE BUSINESS" -

was introduced ih 189,, end an extract ot a letter of the
lat Febrl!<lzy, 189'5, from i:"he l'osttna ste r, Geo. 'l'earce, show~

beloW" conf'iri>IS t'hat i-1: was in use by the lst 'February, 18<)3.

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