Looking Back #35 - Upside Down Stamp Protest

Upside Down Stamp Protest

A recent letter in the Voice of the People column
in the New York Herald-Tribune suggested that all
of those who oppose the present Washington
administration might manifest this disapproval by
turning their stamps upside down on all their mail
matter.

If the movement gets off to a good start it may be
generally adopted as a means of showing our
dissatisfaction over other matters. For instance
stamps could be put on sideways to show that we
don't like out congressman, and that he can keep
the railroad fare and not bother to come home.

But that might be too good a trick to waste on a
congressman since I have been told that congressmen
are not personally fingering their mail ever since
the Dime-Chain-Letter fad petered out.

- George B. Sloane
Sloane's Column
Stamps
September 21, 1935