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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 251 (search)
.--Arrangements have been made by which letters can be safely forwarded to, and received from, the Southern States. The following is the plan:--To get a letter to New Orleans, it must be put in a United States stamped envelope — a three-cent stamp upon an ordinary envelope will not do, because the law of Congress forbids express companies from carrying letters in any other way than when enclosed in stamped envelopes. The letter should then be directed in the following manner: Mr. Benjamin Franklin, New Orleans, Louisiana. Enclose the letter in another envelope, with twenty cents' worth of United States Government stamps, and direct as follows: American letter Express Co. Louisville, Kentucky. This must be paid with one or two three-cent stamps, according to weight. The twenty cents' worth of postage stamps pays ten cents to the Express Company for their trouble, and enables them to pay the bogus Confederacy postage, which is ten cents from Louisville to New Or