Plimpton & Morgan Envelope Company submitted the lowest bid for official and registered package envelopes

06/01/1881 |

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The office of A. D. Hazen received six proposals for the contract to supply postmasters with official and registered package envelopes for the fiscal year.

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The Plimpton & Morgan Envelope Company submitted a bid for $54,724, which was the lowest of the six bids submitted.

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The cost of envelopes under the current contract was $100,810.83.

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The article did not name the other five companies that submitted bids.

For the record

A. D. Hazen was the third assistant postmaster general.
$54,724 is equivalent to $1,738,163 in 2025. The current contract cost the government $3,201,989.16.

Sources

Unattributed. “From Washington,” Hartford Daily Courant, June 2, 1881, page 3.

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