Postage Record. The most important of all records in the mailing room is the postage record. Postage should be placed in charge of the stamp clerk, who should be made responsible for its accounting. The mail clerk is, in fact, a cashier, having the custody of the equivalent of cash in the form of postage stamps. Unless a very strict record is kept, there are abundant opportunities for thievery of stamps and, because they are almost as easily disposed of as cash, the temptation is strong. So great have the losses been from this source, that the government now permits business houses to identify its own stamps by means of perforations. There is now on the market a machine which perforates the initials or trade mark of a firm. The machine is very rapid in operation and stamps can be perforated in sheets very quickly. An enlarged reproduction of a stamp perforation is shown in Fig. 14.
Fig. 16. A Weekly Report of Postage Used
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