COVER Dear friends,
The word cover has got many meanings. One of them isthe paper covers of different types available in stationery shops. We getcovers in post office also for fixed charges. Many institutions have their owncovers and affix /engrave stamp for sending. This posting is about different type of coversand some related topics. Hope an interesting reading. I have also touched obsolete covers also. Gopalakrishnan 2-12-2022 1. Complimentcovers Compliment covers are printed compliments from and aline to fill up our name. These covers have beautiful printing of flowers etc.in the front and printed either in very quality paper or medium quality paper.Size is approximately 6”x4’. At one time I used to get compliment covers with one rupee coin affixed in top.Many used to give compliments as 201, 501, 1001 etc. Some people used to offer compliment in the same coverinvitation is given by the persons inviting. 2. Greetingcovers. There is reduction in sending new-year, Onam, Xmas etc.greetings after the appearance of watts app, E mail, mobile, Land phone etc. Still post offices receive large bags ofgreetings on the eve of New Year. Many feel greetings sent by post in printed NewYear cover and card with their signature to friends will not equal to ones sendby Email etc. Before telegraph service was discontinued, telegraph offices had greetingscovers. Greetings send by telegram was enclosed on these specialcovers and sent to address persons. On the counter these greeting covers were sold alsofor those who want greetings in telegraph greeting covers. 3. Post officeinsured, registered, ordinary and inland covers. >From post office on those days we could get insurance covers to send items >with insurance. Atone time registration coverswere available. If the weight >increased or postal rate increased, one had toaffix additional stamps. I made >fivesearches with different combination to find out whether registered >coveris now prevalent. I could not confirm. I think it is dis continued. >Cover to send letters valued Rs 5-00 and Inland cover are available now. 4. Governmentoffice covers. The state Government prepares covers of its own. Theyaffix service stamp, almost identical to postal stamp. Many Government institutionsprint the letter clearly visible addressee and staple and send as inlandletter. They make payment at post office. The pass port is now sent in specified size small thick yellow cover byspeed post. 5. Discontinuedcovers. Earlier post office had airmail, express delivery covers. Express delivery isdiscontinued which was done on Sunday. I received my first interview letter for higher secondary teacher from TranvancoreDevaswam board, Trivandrum as express delivery letter. I had to attendinterview on Monday morning at 10 AM. Catching a fast passenger bus in theearly morning somehow I reached Trivandrum by 9.30 AM and Devaswam board officeat Nanthancode by 10 AM. 6. Economyslips The P& T department and later Telecom departmenthad such economy slips which were pasted to flab and all details of addressentered in it (in new covers) and just pasted the other end to cover. So using economy slips the same covercould be used for 4-5 transactions. At one time warning letters weresent if new cover was sent without economy to telecom offices. 7. Covers withtransparent windows. Such covers were first started to ensure there is no mistake while writing the address.It saved time also in writing the address. The letter inside was folded so thataddressee could be visibly seen by the postal department while sorting and fordelivery through these windows. These are used by banks, credit carddepartments etc. In these covers a portion of the cover paper is replaced with atransparent paper pasted there. 8. On the spotsupply of covers and fabric inside covers. The private curriers appeared and they started tosupply covers suited to the item to be sent. Most probably covers with looseworn cotton inside pasted to the thick cover had their beginning from them. These cotton inside covers arecostly, but widely used nowadays. I havenot seen such covers with window. It is available in all stationery shops. 9. Specialcovers from labs. Labs issued test reports in very high qualitypaper and cover with their addressprinted. It is supposedonly doctor should see the contents. Probably for preservation very high qualitycovers are printed. But 95 % educated patients used to see the result before giving the cover to doctor. This gavethem some sort of mental peace. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1959489498.300042.1669985532073%40mail.yahoo.com.
